Will Russian embassy’s street in Budapest be named after Alexei Navalny?

That is what the former presidential candidate of the opposition parties, a jurist and university professor, László Majtényi proposed after the alleged death of Putin’s biggest adversary, Alexei Navalny.

“Alleged” because even his wife and mother do not want to believe that Alexei Navalny is dead. The world was informed of the Russian opposition leader’s death yesterday evening by the Russian prison authorities.

The Hungarian government parties have not yet reacted, and we do not believe they will do so.

Leftist opposition parties expressed their grief, indignation, and shock one after the other.

Anna Donáth, the chairwoman of the second biggest leftist opposition party, the Momentum Movement, said she ran out of words. She added nobody could terrify him, and he was the victim of a show trial and unbearable prison conditions. She highlighted his murderer is illiberal Russia, referring to Orbán’s illiberalism, a category the Hungarian prime minister talked about first in 2015 and defined his government as illiberal.

Former PM Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leader of the most supported Hungarian opposition party, the Democratic Coalition, wrote that he shook hands with a murderer since Putin has become one. He added it was shameful that the Hungarian government became an ally of that monster.

Navalny Street in Budapest would not be exceptional

László Majtényi, a former presidential candidate of the leftist opposition in 2017, said Budapest should rename a section of Bajza Street between the Aradi and Andrássy Streets after Navalny, telex.hu wrote.

The street is in the 6th district, which has opposition leadership. The mayor is Tamás Soproni, a former leader of Momentum.

In 2021, Gergely Karácsony, the lord mayor of Budapest, and Krisztina Baranyi, the mayor of the 9th district, renamed several streets around the territory of the planned Fudan University in the 9th district. As a result, the new Fudan Campus’s address would have been the Avenue of Uyghur Martyrs 2. But several other street names were created like Free Hong Kong, Bishop Xie Shiguang and Dalai Lama.

Following some good-sounding grandiose announcements, the Fudan project halted, but the street names remained.

Therefore, the leader of the 6th district has every right to make the Russian Embassy’s address Navalny Street 2 in Budapest.

Of course, there is no telling what consequences such a move would have.

Read also:

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5 Comments

Mario says:

17/02/2024 at 13:25

Good idea.
SMD says:

17/02/2024 at 16:45

Turncoats, Gyurcsany was so friends with Putin, even gifted him with a Puli at him home at dinner. Not a good choice for Prime Minister. Need some one more in the middle, for the working young.
WHO, who is it GOING to BE ???? says:

17/02/2024 at 18:06

SMD – Concur.
Gyurcsany – had his chance – well past his “Due” date to be REPLACED, and “retire” right out of the Political “landscape” of Hungary.
People have LONG memories, just FOCUS on his time as Prime Minister of Hungary was it better off under him or a DISASTER when he got Outed ?
Answer to that is – we as a country certainly where not BETTER for him being Prime Minister and when outed from office as a country a MESS.
PROBLEM remains in Hungary the OVER-SIZED number of Opposition Party’s.
This fact – NEEDS a MASSIVE culling, to get it to a number that the number that remain are PRODUCTIVE in being OPPOSION adding “new life” vibrancy into the Political environment in Hungary.
If this is not addressed, the number of totally in-effect opposition party numbers, that just pull each other apart – disallowing a “Mandate” of at least unity in relation to Policies, instead of the separated fragmented functionality of the mass number of opposition party’s in Hungary at present. – in having the ABILITY – to “cleanse” move on the present Orban Government – that have HUMILIATED the name Hungary, to breath new life – new policies being innovative and thinking forward – ALL under Democracy.
If we Hungary fail to act out this NEED and have a massive gargantuan CLEAN Out in it’s Political arena / landscape, we will, as a country continue to “Forge” forward into the perilous abyss we at present TREND.
WHO is there to play the NEW Age – inspiring motivating – new guard, not from a DNA of the OLD and past age, but a respected forward thinking creative individual, who would lead, embracing the CORE of Democracy which is DIALOGUE, and would stand in front of ALL Hungary and state, that if elected I – my Party will Govern Hungary under the following CREED of (2) points that ask :
(1) – what is BEST for all individually Hungarians.
and secondly:
(2) what is BEST for Hungary.
Cull massively the number of “Dead Wood” opposition Party’s and FIND that individual who will INSPIRE “draw” Hungarians to him or her, that they see HOPE for our Future rather than “sinking” as we are under this Orban Government into a full on Dictatorship regime.
WHO who is it GOING to Be ???
Freedomofspeech says:

19/02/2024 at 08:53

Only crazed leftists and the commenter who fills his lengthy diatribes with CAPS would be insane enough to recommend naming a street after a dead Russian. Enough of the provocations!
mariavontheresa says:

19/02/2024 at 22:15

Bad Idea. If Hungary wants foreign nations to respect its sovereignty, Hungary should reciprocate. So far there is no empirical evidence that Navalny was murdered, it is possible, but without concrete proof, no country should act on rumors.