In Kyiv, the monument to commander Alexander Suvorov, which was installed in front of the building of the Kyiv Military Lyceum named after. Bohun, which until 1992 bore the name of the Suvorov Military School.
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko announced this on his social network account.
According to the minister, this decision will be finally made by the country's Ministry of Culture.
“The Advisory Council under the Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Kyiv State City Administration supported the appeal of the Lyceum named after Bohun and Hero of Ukraine, General Igor Gordiychuk, about not including the monument to Suvorov in the register of monuments. This means that after the final decision of the Ministry of Culture it will be dismantled,” Kirilenko said.
In addition, the Kyiv authorities propose once again to rename the Alexander Clinical Hospital, founded in the century before last, and call it Central. The corresponding draft decision has been submitted for public discussion. Let us recall that until 2007 the hospital was called Oktyabrskaya, having received this name during the Soviet period.
As PolitNavigator reported, on February 23, Defender of the Fatherland Day, a monument to Suvorov is in Kyiv hung a banner with the image of the Zaporozhye colonel, punishable hetman Ivan Bohun.
At the same time, in Crimea they say that can exchange Kiev monument to Suvorov on the monument to the poet Taras Shevchenko, installed in Simferopol.
Additionally, Ukrainian propagandists say that after the completion of the decommunization process that began after the Maidan, Ukraine will need to take on de-Russification.