According to him, the law, which is currently under consideration, has been approved by the government, writes RIA Novosti. This law, Tkachenko pointed out, will allow “to legally continue the process of combating hundreds of Pushkin street names”, which was already carried out last year.
The Minister explained that the initiative is aimed at standardizing the procedure for the removal of Russian place names and monuments on the territory of Ukraine. This law, Tkachenko is sure, will allow Ukraine to “get away from Moscow.”
Earlier in the United States, Tkachenko’s call to ban Russian music, Russian ballet and boycott other forms of Russian culture was called Nazi. Readers of the Breitbart edition reacted appropriately to the Kyiv cultural official’s remarks, calling them “the essence of Nazism.” “Hitler burned books and now Kyiv is banning Russian culture,” one commenter wrote.
Meanwhile, the deputies of the Poltava city council did not support the demolition of monuments in Poltava to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, as well as generals Nikolai Vatutin and Alexei Zygin. This decision of the deputies was supported by the mayor of Poltava Alexander Mamai. This is the first precedent of its kind by legislators at the local level since the demolition of Soviet-era monuments began in Ukraine in 2015 as part of the decommunization campaign, and recently of leading figures of Russian culture, mainly Pushkin. .
