The Kremlin did not comment on Mironov's idea to rename Kaliningrad

MOSCOW, Jul 5 The Kremlin takes no position on the initiative to rename the city of Kaliningrad to Vladybaltiysk , said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. Earlier, the head of the faction in the State Duma, Sergei Mironov, proposed renaming the Kaliningrad region to the Baltic Territory, and Kaliningrad to Vladybaltiysk. For his part, the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, told RIA Novosti that he sees no point in renaming Kaliningrad and the region. «We are not aware. This is a new initiative. We have no position on this issue,» Peskov told reporters in response to request to comment on the initiative.