Rada launched the process of renaming the Kirovograd region
The Verkhovna Rada included on the agenda and sent to the Constitutional Court a draft law on renaming the Kirovograd region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A sufficient number of deputies voted for this decision only the third time - 239 people. The BPP gave 81 votes, “People's Front” – 71, “Self-Help” – 17, Radical Party – 19, “Batkivshchyna” – 10, “Will of the People” – 12, “Renaissance” – 2, non-factional – 27.
“The Kirovograd region got its name from the name of the regional center - the city of Kirovograd. The city was named in honor of Sergei Kirov, whose real name was Kostrikov, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of the USSR of those years, who is considered one of the organizers of mass repressions against Ukrainians, as well as the ideological inspirer of the decree of August 7, 1932, which was popularly called the “law on five spikelets,” said deputy Alexander Gorbunov, presenting the bill.
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