“An order has been signed for its demolition, we (the Pushkin monument – editor’s note) will tear it down,” RIA Novosti quotes Kiper as saying.
Recall that in August, Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov stated that the Pushkin monument would not be demolished, as it is a cultural heritage site. At the same time, the mayor stressed that this monument was erected by the townspeople at their own expense.
Recall that the dismantling of monuments associated with Soviet history, as well as the renaming of streets, began in Ukraine in 2015, when the decommunization law was passed.
According to a law adopted in 2023, all toponyms associated with Russia and the Soviet period must disappear in Ukraine. Thus, since 2014, 555 streets have been renamed in kyiv, and 58% of them in the period 2022-2024.
Meanwhile, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine failed to pass a bill to rename 333 cities the other day.
