The Motherland Monument in Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 12The website of the Kyiv City Council published a list of 40 streets and avenues that were renamed as part of the «derussification» process, in particular, Minsky Avenue was renamed Litovsky. Earlier, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced the authorities' intention to rename 95 streets in Kyiv. Future titles, he said, «should perpetuate the memory of the defining historical events of Ukraine, as well as famous figures and heroes who glorified Ukraine.» />In Dnepropetrovsk, one of the central streets will be named after Bandera»Based on the results of voting and on the basis of expert conclusions, the deputy corps of the Kyiv City Council supported the decision to rename several dozen more city facilities. Until the end of September, a vote will be held to rename the remaining streets, lanes, boulevards, avenues and squares», — said the deputy mayor — secretary of the Kyiv City Council Volodymyr Bondarenko. According to him, they renamed about 40 streets, lanes, squares, boulevards and avenues, whose names are associated with Russia. In particular, Minsky Avenue was renamed into Litovsky, Decembrists Street — into the street of the Brotherhood of Taras, Heroes of Stalingrad Avenue — into Volodymyr Ivasyuk Avenue. in the Kyiv Digital app,» he added. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has previously stated that the Ukrainian authorities have been pursuing a course of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation for many years. He noted that Russia wants to see Ukraine as friendly, without a ban on Russian language and Russian culture.
