[5] According to the Russian news agency TASS, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that in addition to honouring the memory of Boris Nemtsov, Prague should also remember the Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Czechia from the fascists,[6] ignoring the fact that the Czech Republic takes care of 4224 war graves, memorials or monuments of fallen Soviet soldiers.

[9] In April 2020, the mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, was given police protection days after a news report suggested he was the target of an assassination plot.

[15] The renaming of the square after the assassinated Russian politician provoked widespread international coverage, with The Guardian reporting on the great symbolic significance of the act also in advance on February 11.

[26] In addition to Boris Nemtsov, another prominent Russian personality - Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist for the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta who covered, among other things, Russia's military involvement in Chechnya and who was assassinated in 2006 - was added to the Prague local directory on February 27, 2020.

[27][28] "The murders of Politkovskaya and Nemstov demonstrated an inexorable process of the centralization of power in the Kremlin, the repression of human rights and independent journalism, and the use of regime propaganda to demonize all opponents and to whip up nationalist hatred", said National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman.

"It's a good step, very human and generous," said Vitaly Yaroshevsky, a former associate of the murdered journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, who came to see the opening of the new promenade.