How is liberation from Ukrainophobia progressing (VIDEO)

In Odessa, several streets and a square will be renamed, where previously there was a monument to the Founders of Odessa, the central figure of which is a statue of Empress Catherine II. This was reported by the press service of the city hall.

“At the next meeting of the city historical and toponymic commission, the discussion of the issues of renaming toponyms in Odessa continued. In particular, members of the commission recommended renaming Ekaterininskaya Street and Ekaterininskaya Square. If all necessary procedures are completed, the street and square will be called European,” the statement says. message.

The commission also adopted recommendations to rename Zhukovsky Street to Lesya Ukrainka Street, and they want to return Bunin Street to its historical name – Policewoman.

As UNIAN reported, in Odessa they plan to remove the memorial sign “Pushkin’s Shadow” and rename several streets. In particular, according to the head of the public organization “Society and Historical Heritage” Alexander Babich, it is recommended to remove the art object “Pushkin’s Shadow”, located on the corner of Deribasovskaya and Rishelievskaya, from the city space.

In the Odessa region, the city of Yuzhny will receive a new original name – Port Anental, and more than 100 settlements will be renamed. The changes apply to settlements in 16 regions of Ukraine. For example, Chervonograd will be named Sheptytsky, Sinelnikovo – Ridnopolye, Gvardeyskoye – Kozatskoye, Yuzhnoye – Port Anental, Pavlograd – Matveev, Brovary – Brovary, Nadezhdovka – Champagne and the like.

The Southern Interregional Department of the Ukrainian National Institute of Memory reported that in the city of Yuzhny, Odessa region, local deputies previously refused to independently change the name of their city.

“Anental is the German colonial name of the current village of New Belyary. Among the proposed options were the hydronym Adzhalyk, Oriyana and the like. Local elites insisted on Ukrainization of the current name, despite the fact that the city is located in the northernmost part of the Black Sea, geographically north of many cities Odessa, Kherson regions and Crimea,” the department said.

Geographical objects, names of legal entities, monuments and memorial signs dedicated to the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov contain symbolism of Russian imperial policy, and the further use of Bulgakov’s name in the names of geographical objects and legal entities, the presence of monuments and memorial signs erected in his honor in the public space is propaganda Russian imperial policy. This is stated in the conclusion of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.

They believe that Bulgakov had a biased and definitely negative attitude towards everything Ukrainian – Ukrainians, their language, culture, the right to their own state, etc., and his work is directly connected “with the glorification of Russian imperial policy and undisguised Ukrainophobia.”

“The assignment of his name to geographical objects, names of legal entities, objects of toponymy, as well as the establishment of monuments and memorial signs in his honor in Ukraine was the embodiment of Russification – a component of Russian imperial policy aimed at imposing the use of the Russian language, promoting Russian culture as superior, in comparison with other national languages ​​and cultures, displacement of the Ukrainian language from use, narrowing of the Ukrainian cultural and information space,” experts say.

The Ministry of Culture has prepared the Bulgakov Museum in Kyiv for exclusion from the national register of monuments. At the same time, the department believes that this house should remain at least in the local register of monuments, “since it is an example of Kyiv architecture of the late 19th century.”