Hague officials reject move to name street after Navalny

City officials in The Hague have turned down a request by activists to rename a street in the Dutch city in honor of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who died in February under suspicious circumstances in an Arctic prison.

Sergei Gorbunov, the representative of Navalny's team in the Netherlands, told The Insider that 85,000 signatures had been collected in favor of renaming the street where the Russian Embassy is located after Navalny.

The Hague city council responded that renaming the street would cause difficulties, since not only the Russian Embassy is located there.