decommunization
Feb. 11 2021, 8:24 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Court cancels renaming capital’s Moscow Avenue to Bandera Avenue
The Kyiv District Administrative Court has overturned the Kyiv City Council’s decision to rename Moscow Avenue to Stepan Bandera Avenue in Kyiv. The …
Liza Semko
May 6 2020, 12:34 am
Atlas Obscura: Preserving Ukraine’s Soviet past, one mosaic at a time
On a sunny spring day in Kyiv, Ukraine, two people stand before a massive mosaic on the side of the Institute for Nuclear Research, stepping back a …
Atlas Obscura
Aug. 5 2019, 11:44 am
Symonenko seeking to annul order about Communist party ban
Kyiv’s District Administrative Court has launched proceedings under a claim of leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko and the …
Interfax-Ukraine
July 24 2019, 1:07 pm
Symonenko, Communist party seek to overturn order on de-communization
Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) leader Petro Symonenko has filed a suit with the Kyiv District Administrative Court asking it to overturn an order of …
Interfax-Ukraine
June 26 2019, 11:04 am
UNIAN: Court overturns decision on naming avenues after Bandera, Shukhevych
The Kyiv District Administrative Court overturned the decision of the Kyiv City Council to rename two avenues in honor of Stepan Bandera and Roman …
UNIAN
April 4 2019, 6:07 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Kyiv City Council renames street to honor John McCain
Kyiv City Council on April 4 voted to rename Ivan Kudrya Street in central Kyiv John McCain Street: the council decision was passed with a vote of 71 …
Vyacheslav Hnatyuk
Sept. 6 2018, 4:13 pm
Censor.net: Parliament backs ‘Glory to Ukraine’ greeting in first reading
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted in the first reading the bill “On ammendments to the Charters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” (No. 9036) …
Censor.net
March 27 2018, 12:34 pm
RFE/RL: The women fighting to preserve Ukraine’s Soviet murals – `Don’t decommunize this!’
Throughout the former Soviet Union, almost unlimited public money was spent on mosaics to try and liven up the gray, boxy suburbs of the communist …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Feb. 12 2018, 12:36 pm
Viatrovych: Decommunization in Ukraine almost completed, about 1,000 towns, villages renamed
Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych has said that decommunization in Ukraine has actually been …
Interfax-Ukraine
Feb. 8 2018, 8:15 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Forget Petrivka metro station – now it’s Pochaina
Kyiv city council voted on Feb. 8 to rename Petrivka, a major station of Kyiv metro, to Pochaina. The step comes in line with the decommunization …
Anna Yakutenko
Sept. 8 2017, 4:51 pm
Poroshenko says decommunization program removes more than 1,300 Lenin statues
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that in three years of decommunization more than 1,300 Lenin monuments in 32 cities have been …
Interfax-Ukraine
June 16 2017, 7:28 pm
Activists marching in protest against renaming Vatutin Avenue in Kyiv in honor of Shukhevych
Activists in Kyiv have started a flash-mob under the motto ‘Vatutin Avenue Welcomes You!’ against the idea of renaming the avenue in honor of Roman …
Interfax-Ukraine
June 1 2017, 5:42 pm
Kyiv’s General Vatutin Avenue renamed Roman Shukhevych Avenue
The Kyiv City Council has voted in favor of renaming the city’s General Vatutin Avenue into Roman Shukhevych Avenue. This decision was supported by 69 …
Interfax-Ukraine
Nov. 18 2016, 6:15 pm
Almost half of residents of Ukraine want decommunization
Some half of the population of Ukraine support the idea of a ban on Communist ideology and over 40 percent support the dismantling of monuments to …
Interfax-Ukraine
Oct. 24 2016, 1:51 pm
Meduza: Lenin statue dismantled in Ukraine after failed attempt to sell it
A statue of revolutionary Vladimir Lenin has been dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Novgorod-Seversky in the Chernigov region after it failed to …
Meduza
Oct. 24 2016, 12:54 pm
UNIAN: Last monument to Lenin in Ukraine toppled in country’s de-communisation spree
The last standing monument to Communist leader Vladimir Lenin has been dismantled in the town of Novhorod-Siversky, Chernihiv region, espreso.tv …
UNIAN
July 14 2016, 4:08 pm
UNIAN: Sweeping out Soviet past – Kirovohrad renamed Kropyvnytsky
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UNIAN
July 8 2016, 7:48 am
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Kyiv renames ‘Moscow Avenue’ after contentious nationalist hero
Read more here.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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