Wikipedia has an article about the embassy.
In 2020, the Prague city council renamed the plaza on which the embassy sits to Boris Nemtsov Square, after the Russian opposition politician who was murdered in 2015. In response, the embassy changed its official address to 36 Korunovační Street, the address of the embassy’s consular division, on the same property but with its address on the adjacent street. The embassy described Korunovační Street as “historical” and said “the probability of its renaming is much lower than that of the recently appeared ‘Boris Nemtsov square.’” Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 22 April 2022 the Prague city council also renamed a short stretch of Korunovační Street in front of the embassy to “Ukrajinských hrdinů” (in English: Ukrainian heroes), so the embassy’s address is now 6 Ukrajinských hrdinů.
It looks like the Prague city council’s biggest goal is to make it so that the address of the Russian embassy brings up something embarrassing. So, now if you want something delivered to the Russian Embassy, you have to send it to “6 Ukrainian heroes”.
Amazing
Props for them for keeping decorum, because if I had a job of naming street where Russian embassy is - it’d be “Stinking Vatnik street” or “Snohachestvo street”.
The Russian embassy in Ireland is on Orwell Road. Simple and fitting.
Latvia did the same thing. The address of the Russian embassy now literally translates to “Ukrainian Independence Street”.
There’s a Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow, Scotland which was renamed to that in 1986 because the apartheid South African consulate was there. I love this kind of thing
Well fuck, I don’t know much about Prague but I am suddenly interested.
I’ve had a fascination with Prague since I read Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. It takes place primarily in Prague, fantastic book series.
I haven’t been, but I’ve wanted to go for ages. It looks like it’s got some really nice architecture.
Fantastic city, was a bit disappointed with the food, but the sightseeing was great.
I would also recommend a visit to Kutná Hora to see its historical district and its ossuary. You can get there by train from Prague.
The street outside the US Consulate in Kolkata was renamed after Ho Chi Minh during the Vietnam War.
Filling it with concrete would be a better troll!
or an iron curtain around it
