Mayor of Vilnius Remigius Shimashys Square near the building of the Russian Embassy in the neighborhood Zverinas offers to call the Square of Russian Democrats.

This week the mayor will present such a proposal to the municipal council.

The idea that the nameless square was named after the Russian opposition is being discussed for several years already.

Conservatives offer the square or the current street of Latvia, where the embassy is located, named in honor of the Russian oppositionist Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in 2015, and Shimashius agreed that an emphasis on B. Nemtsov - a bench or a symbolic bridge, notes delfi. lt.