News archive on the topic "War with the past"

The board of the nationalist organization “Prosvita” proposes to the city authorities of Chernigov to remove the graves of Soviet partisans Popudrenko and Kapranov from the city park in the center of Chernigov. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the local publication “Siverschyna”. Nationalists demand that burials be moved from the historical center of the city to one of the cemeteries. “The city government must comply with the law...

The first monument to Lenin was dismantled today in the city of Rubizhne in the Lugansk region. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the press service of the Razhezhansky City Council. The monument was placed in the area of ​​school No. 6. It is noted that the monument was dismantled by utility workers in accordance with the decision of the Rubezhnoye City Council dated July 2. “The memorial structure was dismantled without damage...

As IT Sector – Kharkov reported on its page on the social network, an interactive map of decommunization has been created in Ukraine. According to it, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk are leaders in the number of settlements subject to renaming. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The Info-Light information center has created a map of Ukraine on which you can see all the settlements of the country subject to...

In Dneprodzerzhinsk, authorities are going to demolish 23 monuments and memorial signs from the Soviet period. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by Radio Liberty with reference to the city council. The monuments to be dismantled include the monument to Vladimir Lenin on Lenin Square and Felix Dzerzhinsky on Dzerzhinsky Street, a monument to fellow countryman, general secretary...

In Ukraine, as part of the process launched by President Poroshenko to combat his own past and maneuver the population, called “decommunization,” 66 settlements will be renamed. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This is reported on the website of the so-called “Ukrainian Institute of National Memory” - an office created back in the days of Yushchenko with the aim of falsifying history...

The current government wants to rename the city of Kotovsk in the Odessa region in retaliation for the fact that the future murderer of Simon Petliura, Samuel Schwartzbard, served in the brigade of the legendary brigade commander during the Civil War. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed on his social network page by an Odessa politician and head of the Union of Anarchists of Ukraine party...

The mayor of Kharkov, Gennady Kernes, says that he is not going to resist the process of de-Sovietization in Kharkov. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Kernes himself stated this in his interview with Radio Liberty. “If the law is signed and comes into force, we will create a working group that will work to implement the law. This…

The Kyiv City Council Commission on Culture and Tourism approved a draft decision on the dismantling of communist symbols at Kyiv metro stations. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the press service of the Kiev City Council. According to the project, the communist symbols that remain at nine metro stations of the capital will be dismantled: At the Heroiv Dnepra metro station on...

The head of the Kyiv-controlled Lugansk military-civil administration, Gennady Moskal, intends to study how justified the communist names of settlements in the region are. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This is reported on the administrator's website. Moskal also “instructed to scientifically substantiate the relationship (or lack thereof) to the communist past of the names of individual settlements in the region,” including the village of Kommuna in...

The largest toponymic reserve of the Soviet period is not the northern Chernihiv region, where the influence of Russia has always been stronger, but the central and southern regions of the region - Nosovsky, Mensky and Borznyansky. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This is written by the Chernigov website 0462, which has counted 25 settlements in the region - candidates for renaming. At…

The leaders among the working names for renaming Dnepropetrovsk are Dnepr, Sicheslav, Kodak. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The acting director spoke about this on Channel 5. Manager of the Executive Committee of the Dnepropetrovsk City Council Vadim Shebanov. According to him, a working commission is currently being created on the issues of renaming streets and the city. “Today there is...

Despite the fact that the anti-communist laws adopted by the Rada have not yet been signed by the president and have not entered into force, nationalist pogroms and vandalism are gaining momentum throughout the country. Late in the evening of April 17, 2015, vandals demolished two more monuments to the leader of the world proletariat in Kharkov. IT Sektor Kharkov reported this on Twitter. “On the evening of April 17, 2015...

A wave of nationalist pogroms and vandalization of monuments continues in Ukraine. Today, during a march of nationalists under the slogan “Kramatorsk is Ukraine,” unknown people in balaclavas toppled a monument to Lenin. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte UNN reports this. During the march, when all its participants gathered near the monument to Taras Shevchenko, on the central…

In Kyiv they are in a hurry to “clean up” the memory of the USSR. All Soviet symbols on buildings are going to be dismantled by August 24. The inventory of communist symbols is proposed to be completed by June 28. The specialized commission of the Kiev City Council supported the draft decision of the Kyiv City Council “On the replacement of communist symbols on buildings and structures of municipal property of the territorial community of Kiev.” Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" in...