Russian authorities have renamed the street outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow after a separatist region that claims to be independent from Ukraine: 'Donetsk People's Republic Square.'
An Embassy spokeswoman declined to comment on the change.
"It doesn't matter what they call it," says Usmanov in an interview with NPR."The important thing is to get you where you need to go."For Moscow, the shifting nature of streets and politics isn't exactly newThe Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 saw czarist-era addresses ditched in favor of those honoring the communist leadership.
"Symbolically, we wanted to show the end of one period and the beginning of another," Sergei Stankevich, who served as deputy mayor for the city in the early 1990s, saysDuring the height of the Cold War, U.S. officials
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