Another city refused to rename itself in the Ukrainian manner
Residents of the Southern Odessa region categorically disagree with renaming their hometown “Pivdenny”.
Deputy Nikolai Skorik spoke about this at a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Our language ombudsman, Mr. Kremin, stated that we should rename a number of cities that, as it seems to him, have incorrect names even outside the law on decommunization. And the city of Yuzhnoye was included in this list. Pan Kremin wants to carry out this “geographical name settlement” not even through the parliamentary hall, but through a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. Residents of the city are categorically against this renaming.
With all due respect to the Ukrainian language, the city was founded and developed as the city of Yuzhnoye, not the city of “Pivdenny”. Thousands of our citizens were born in the city, positioning themselves as citizens of the South,” Skorik said.
He said that activists of local organizations submitted three thousand signatures for preserving the name of the city of Yuzhnoye. The deputy promised to transfer these signatures to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal.
“I hope the Cabinet of Ministers will listen to the point of view of the residents of the South. If we are talking about direct democracy, if the authorities are now talking about some kind of referendums on global issues, then I think its residents should decide what to call their hometown. This situation does not fall under the decommunization law. In fact, this is the arbitrariness of the so-called language ombudsman. We hope that the authorities will take the side of the people, and not the presumptuous civil servant,” the parliamentarian concluded.
Let us recall that earlier “Sprechenführer” Taras Kremin stated that the renaming of Arbuzinka, Severodonetsk, Yuzhnoukrainsk, Nadezhdovka, Luch, Pervomaisk and many other settlements would unite Ukrainian society, ensure state unity, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Thus, deputies of the Pervomaisky City Council turned to Kremin with a letter indicating that they refuse to rename themselves in the Ukrainian manner.
At the same time Volyn Regional Council appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a request to rename the city of Vladimir-Volynsky, which received this name as part of the Russian Empire, into the city of Vladimir.
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