Residents of Paris Commune Street in Vladimir, who disagree with renaming it to the street of General Roman Kutuzov, who died in Ukraine, filed a class action lawsuit with the Vladimir Regional Court. About this writes the publication «Chesnok».
The statement was signed by 49 people, and the defendant is the Vladimir City Council.
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The plaintiffs indicated that the decision to rename the street was made in violation of the procedure and contrary to the charter of the city. In addition, in the process of renaming, the opinion of the inhabitants was not taken into account, and the toponymic commission violated the regulation on street naming, which prohibits the use of genetic constructions.
Paris Commune Street was renamed at the end of July by a unanimous decision of the city council of Vladimir. Other options for perpetuating the memory of Roman Kutuzov were not discussed. Residents of the street and the communists appealed to the interim acting governor of the region Alexander Avdeev with a request to cancel the decision of the city deputies.
The edition «Chesnok» wrote that the name change would lead to inconvenience for local residents: change of passports and documents of ownership. The chairman of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Anton Sidorko, does believe that the authorities are carrying out “decommunization.”
“Perpetuating the memory of heroes while carrying out decommunization at the same time is the wrong way. Writing a new page in history, tearing out pages of the past, is a big mistake,” he said.
In June, the square near the US embassy in Moscow was named after the self-proclaimed DPR. State employees were forced to vote for this option on the Active Citizen website. Later, the authorities renamed the territory near the British Embassy in Moscow in honor of the self-proclaimed LNR.