The head of the Luhansk region wants to rename a number of settlements
The head of the military-civil administration of Luhansk region of Ukraine Gennady Moskal said Tuesday that he wants to rename 19 settlements in the area in connection with the legislative act of decommunization.
the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko fifteen signed the law " about the condemnation of the Communist and Nazi regimes ", for example, prohibiting propaganda of Soviet symbols. The document caused a great resonance in society, because it has not been clearly written by the boundaries of its use. For example, there was a furious argument on the need to rename a number of settlements named after events or figures of the Soviet era. The government promised to amend the legislation edits and remove inaccuracies.
As said Moskal on its Internet representation Tuesday, he appealed to the scientists to find out any names of localities controlled by the security forces of the territory relate to the figures of the Soviet period. In may, the Commission conducted research and came to the conclusions stated in the draft resolution of the Verkhovna Rada.
"Only on controlled Ukraine of the territory of the region should be renamed 19 settlements, named after the figures of the Communist regime. Most of them are asked to return ancient historical names ", - is informed in the report of the Russian.
in the tenth report of the monitoring mission of the office of the high Commissioner of United Nations for human rights notes that the limits associated with a ban on propaganda of Soviet symbols in Ukraine violate international law in the field of freedom of opinion.