I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7460 
To redesignate the area of Sumner Row on the 1100 block of 16th Street 
Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as ‘‘Alexei Navalny 
Way’’, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 26, 2024 
Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To redesignate the area of Sumner Row on the 1100 block 
of 16th Street Northwest in Washington, District of Co-
lumbia, as ‘‘Alexei Navalny Way’’, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The administration of President Vladimir V. 
Putin of the Russian Federation has engaged in 
transnational repression, assassinations of political 
opponents, poisoning and other attempted murders 
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of political opponents, journalists, and human rights 
defenders, systemic human rights abuses, and 
unprovoked military attacks or deployments to 
neighboring countries. 
(2) The administration of President Vladimir V. 
Putin of the Russian Federation has carried out ar-
rests and detentions of those who peacefully seek 
democratic freedoms or oppose to his repression, 
corruption, and invasion of Ukraine. 
(3) Alexei Navalny was a Russian political dis-
sident and activist dedicated to promoting demo-
cratic freedoms and fighting corruption in Russia. 
(4) On February 16, 2024, the Russian prison 
where Alexei Navalny was being held after his con-
viction on fabricated charges in February 2021 an-
nounced that he had died a day after he was seen 
in good health. 
(5) Alexei Navalny had a history of exposing 
the widespread corruption that sustained the Putin 
regime by enriching its enablers. 
(6) Alexei Navalny was recognized and awarded 
on numerous occasions for his work fighting corrup-
tion and promotion of democratic ideals, including 
the 2015 Prize of the Platform of European Memory 
and Conscience, nomination for the 2021 Nobel 
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Peace Prize, the 2021 Boris Nemtsov Prize for 
Courage, the 2021 Moral Courage Award by the Ge-
neva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, the 
2021 Knight of Freedom Award by the Casimir Pu-
laski Foundation, and the 2021 Sakharov Prize by 
the European Parliament. 
(7) Alexei Navalny and fellow dissident Vladi-
mir Kara-Murza endured several poisonings and 
other attempts on their lives carried out by Putin’s 
government. 
(8) Renaming the street near the official resi-
dence of the Russian Ambassador to the United 
States serves as a continuing expression of solidarity 
between the people of the United States and the peo-
ple of the Russian Federation, who are engaged in 
a sustained, peaceful, and patriotic struggle for fun-
damental freedoms. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF ALEXEI NAVALNY WAY. 
(a) DESIGNATION OF WAY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The area between 1135 16th 
Street Northwest and 1119–1125 16th Street 
Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, 
shall be known and designated as ‘‘Alexei Navalny 
Way’’. 
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(2) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, 
map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of 
the United States to the area referred to in para-
graph (1) shall be deemed to be a reference to 
‘‘Alexei Navalny Way’’. 
(b) SIGNS.—The District of Columbia shall construct 
2 street signs that shall— 
(1) contain the phrase ‘‘Alexei Navalny Way’’; 
(2) be placed immediately above existing signs 
between the addresses mentioned in subsection 
(a)(1) and a sign post at 1555 L Street Northwest, 
Washington District of Columbia; and 
(3) be similar in design to the signs used by the 
District of Columbia to designate the location of 
Metro Stations. 
Æ 
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