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

Alexei Navalny
Photo: FB/Anna Donáth

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.

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