Moscow square to be named after British double agent Kim Philby
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin signed the order amid tensions between Russia and Britain.
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The mayor of Moscow has decreed that a square near the headquarters of Russia’s foreign intelligence service should be named after British double agent Kim Philby.
Sergei Sobyanin signed the order amid tensions between Russia and Britain over the nerve agent poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.
Philby joined MI6 in 1940, eventually heading its counter-espionage division and serving as intelligence liaison with the United States.
Philby defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, where he died in 1988.
