Sen. Marco Rubio Marco Antonio RubioFlorida senators pushing to keep Daylight Savings Time during pandemic Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings MORE (R-Fla.) introduced legislation on Monday to name the street in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., after a slain Russian opposition leader.

Rubio wants to designate the street “Boris Nemtsov Plaza,” after a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was killed in 2015.

Nemtsov was shot in the back in central Moscow. Before his murder, he was allegedly working on a report detailing the Kremlin’s role in supplying weapons to Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

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“Two years ago, Boris Nemtsov was murdered on a Moscow bridge within view of the Kremlin and no one has been held to account,” Rubio said in a statement Monday evening.

“He was just one of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have wound up dead or hospitalized as the regime cracks down on any opposition and rules Russian with an iron fist.”

“The creation of ‘Boris Nemtsov Plaza’ would permanently remind Putin’s regime and the Russian people that these dissidents’ voices live on, and that defends of liberty will not be silenced.”

Renaming the street in front of #Russia's embassy after #BorisNemtsov will remind Putin dissidents won't be silenced https://t.co/40BjhCqfIv — Senator Rubio Press (@SenRubioPress) February 28, 2017

The action comes amid questions about Russia's ties to President Trump's campaign and investigations into the nation's meddling into the U.S. presidential election.