RIGAThe number of Riga residents supporting the proposal to rename the street presently named in honor of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the former president of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, has increased in recent months.According to an opinion poll conducted this January by the SKDS polling company, 65.4 percent of people residing in Riga want a new name for Dudayev Avenue, up by 5 percent from a similar poll held last November. Only 24.6 percent of respondents would prefer the street to retain its current name, and 26.9 percent agreed that it would be better to give the street back its Soviet-e...
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