INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authorities in Moscow said on Wednesday that they have changed the official address of the U.S
Embassy building in the Russian capital to one named after pro-Kremlin separatists in Ukraine."The United States Embassy in Russia has a new
official address," Moscow City hall said in a statement, saying it had named a previously unnamed open area in front of the embassy's main
public vote in which nearly 280,000 people participated, the city hall said.In February 2018, a street outside the Russian Embassy in
Washington was named after Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician who was shot dead outside the Kremlin in 2015.President Vladimir Putin
sent troops into Ukraine on Feb
24, further escalating already high tensions between Moscow and the United States.
