Go to mediabankMonument to Catherine II in Odessa,. Ukraine. Archival photoMOSCOW, September 12 Artak Grigoryan, a member of the radical Ukrainian movement «Automaidan», poured paint over the monument to Russian Empress Catherine II in Odessa, the Public edition reports. According to Grigoryan, the police took him to the regional department and made him 
The mayor of Odessa wants to replace the demolished monuments with less controversial onesIn early August, Vladimir Zelensky appealed to the city council of Odessa with a request consider a proposal to demolish the monument to Catherine II. This appeal was published in response to a petition for the demolition of the monument, as well as in response to a petition to replace the monument to the Empress with a monument to an American porn actor. Zelensky, in his response, stated the need to work out the issue of «cleansing public space from objects and monuments relating to the Russian imperial and Soviet heritage» in the context of «protection of national interests». The mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that he opposed the demolition of the monument to the Russian Empress Catherine II. . In 1920, it was already dismantled, but in 2007 it was restored again on Ekaterininskaya Square.
