The Verkhovna Rada has renamed more than 300 settlements, the names of which contain symbols of russian imperial policy or do not meet the standards of the state language.
Member of Parliament from the Holos faction, Yaroslav Zhelezniak, announced this on his Telegram channel, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
A total of 281 parliamentarians voted for draft resolution No. 12043, with the minimum required 226.
The document proposes to rename 4 districts, 10 cities, 56 towns, and 262 villages of the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv Regions, the names of which contain symbols of russian imperial policy or do not meet the standards of the state language.
In particular, settlements named after moscow figures are being renamed.
Among the renaming proposals were many names associated with Soviet holidays or symbols.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on September 18, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, explained due to the renaming of which cities and villages the parliament did not support the decommunization and de-russification of more than 300 settlements.
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