The police filed a case under paragraph "hooliganism" in connection with the demolition of three monuments to Soviet leaders in Kharkiv, according to the report of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv region.

before the Police reported that an unidentified last night knocked 3 of the monument to party and public figures of the times of the USSR in Kharkov. Damaged bust of Ivan Kotlova in the Leninsky district, the bust of Sergei Kirov in the Moscow area and Felix Dzerzhinsky in the Dzerzhinsk region.

"all facts are open criminal proceedings in accordance with paragraph" hooliganism ", - is informed in the report of the Ministry of interior. The sanction of article provides for the restriction of liberty for a term up to five years.

in Ukraine since the political decline in the country, the cases of vandalism relatively monuments of the Soviet era. The most resonant was the incident on 1 December 2013, when the radicals dropped from the pedestal of a statue of Lenin in Central Kiev. Just vandals have demolished more than five hundred monuments to Lenin in Ukraine, and about 1, 7 thousand survived.

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