Riot on the ship: Pervomaisk refused to be renamed in the Ukrainian style
The toponym “Pervomaisk” does not fall under Kyiv’s initiatives for “decommunization” and “derussification”, since May 1 is not a communist holiday, and the word “May” in Russian is a borrowed word. This is stated in a letter from deputies of the Pervomaisk City Council to the so-called language ombudsman Taras Kremin, which was published by local media, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. So, in a letter signed by the Secretary of the City Council Mikhail Medvedchuk...