Vitali Klitschko. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 26 About 60 monuments linked to Russia and the Soviet Union are planned to be dismantled in Kyiv, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said. On Tuesday, the Ukrainian online publication Strana.ua reported that in Kyiv, they began to dismantle the monument to the Russian and Ukrainian workers under the arch of Friendship of Peoples. In addition, earlier in the Kyiv city administration it was reported that proposals are being collected regarding the renaming of almost 300 city objects whose names are associated with Russia and Belarus. «, — Klitschko wrote in his Telegram channel. The process of decommunization in Ukraine was legalized by a whole package of laws that came into force on May 21, 2015. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Ukrainian authorities for many years pursued a policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation. He noted that Russia wants to see Ukraine as friendly, without a ban on the Russian language and Russian culture. Shukhevych
