The deputy stressed that such a decision speaks of the "consolidation of Russian society."

In addition, Shkhagoshev admitted that the staff of the British embassy could do the same as the representatives of the US embassy in Moscow, who removed the address from their website after renaming the territory near the diplomatic mission to the area of ​​the Donetsk People's Republic.

“But the most important thing is that this square exists, there is a name, and Moscow is a huge city, where there are a lot, including foreigners, they will see it,” he explained.

In addition, the interlocutor of RT called the news with the results of the vote symbolic on the day when the head of the Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, presented the country's President Vladimir Putin with a report on the liberation of the Luhansk People's Republic. 

Earlier, residents of Moscow, with the help of the Active Citizen project, voted to name the area near the British Embassy in the Russian capital in honor of the Luhansk People's Republic.

109,603 people took part in the voting.

56.85% of the participants voted for this option. 

On June 22, the territory near the US Embassy in Moscow was given the name "Donetsk People's Republic Square".