Decolonization of toponyms: The Council has banned geographical names related to the Russian Federation

The ban extends to the names related to the occupying country, its monuments, memorable, historical, cultural and other places, as well as figures involved in military aggression. On Tuesday, March 21, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Geographical Names" in connection with the decolonization of place names and ordering the use of geographical names in Ukraine. About it reports the BP site. The changes in the law were supported by 248 people's deputies.

The explanatory note states that the law is intended to "restore Ukrainian historical and national toponymics and update it with the names of the latest heroes who fight the enemy. " Changes in the Law of Ukraine "On Geographical Names", aimed at decolonization of toponymy, provides a ban on the assignment of names of geographical objects that magnify, perpetuate, promote or symbolize the aggressor country.

The same applies to the monuments, historical and cultural places of Russia, its cities, commemorative dates, events and figures who carried out military aggression against Ukraine or other countries. According to the authors of the initiative, the adoption of the law should accelerate the detion and derusification of Ukraine. We will remind that in Kiev the monument to the Soviet general Nicholas Vatutin was removed. The monument for 75 years stood in Mariinsky Park.