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id="cite_ref-decommunizaion_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-decommunizaion-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc32267075-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, this meant that 22 cities and 44 villages were set to get new names.<sup id="cite_ref-22_cities_and_44_villages_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22_cities_and_44_villages-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until 21 November 2015, municipal governments had the authority to implement this;<sup id="cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> if they failed to do so, the <a href="/wiki/Oblasts_of_Ukraine" title="Oblasts of Ukraine">oblasts</a> had until 21 May 2016 to change the names.<sup id="cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the settlement still kept its old name, the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Ministers_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine">Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine</a> could give a new name to the settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Violation of the law carries a penalty of a potential media ban and prison sentences of up to five years.<sup id="cite_ref-dwdc9415_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dwdc9415-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-oscedc18515_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oscedc18515-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early stages of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the <a href="/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine" title="Security Service of Ukraine">Security Service of Ukraine</a> reported that the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a> had been helping <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Donetsk People's Republic">pro-Russian separatists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russian_people%27s_militias_in_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian people's militias in Ukraine">Russian proxy forces</a> in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2015, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Interior_(Ukraine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of the Interior (Ukraine)">Ministry of the Interior</a> stripped the Communist Party, the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(renewed)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)">Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Workers_and_Peasants" title="Communist Party of Workers and Peasants">Communist Party of Workers and Peasants</a> of their right to participate in elections and stated it was continuing court actions to end the registration of <a href="/wiki/Category:Communist_parties_in_Ukraine" title="Category:Communist parties in Ukraine">communist parties in Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Banukcom24715_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Banukcom24715-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By December 2015, these parties had been banned, for involvement in violating Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, inciting a violent overthrow of the state, and supporting Russian proxy forces.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Communist Party of Ukraine appealed the ban to the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2016, 51,493 streets and 987 cities and villages were renamed (with either the restoration of their historic names or new names), and 1,320 <a href="/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Vladimir_Lenin#Ukraine" title="List of statues of Vladimir Lenin">Lenin monuments</a> and 1,069 monuments to other communist figures removed.<sup id="cite_ref-rdiU16_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rdiU16-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_unofficial_reforms">Early unofficial reforms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early unofficial reforms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An unofficial <a href="/wiki/Decommunization" title="Decommunization">decommunization</a> process started in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> after the dissolution of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and the following <a href="/wiki/Independence_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Independence of Ukraine">independence of Ukraine</a> in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC8380433_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC8380433-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Decommunization was carried out much more ruthlessly and visibly in the former Soviet Union's <a href="/wiki/Baltic_states" title="Baltic states">Baltic states</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> countries outside the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ukraine's first president after the country's <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_Ukraine" title="Declaration of Independence of Ukraine">1991 independence</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Kravchuk" title="Leonid Kravchuk">Leonid Kravchuk</a>, had also issued orders aimed at "<a href="/wiki/Sovietization" title="Sovietization">de-sovietisation</a>" in the early 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC8380433_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC8380433-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the following years, although at a slow rate, historical monuments to Soviet leaders were removed in Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC8380433_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC8380433-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This process went on much further in the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian-speaking</a> <a href="/wiki/Western_Ukraine" title="Western Ukraine">western regions</a> than in the industrialised, largely <a href="/wiki/Russian_language_in_Ukraine" title="Russian language in Ukraine">Russian-speaking</a> <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine" title="Eastern Ukraine">eastern regions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC8380433_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC8380433-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Decommunization laws were drafted in the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian parliament">Ukrainian parliament</a> in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011, and 2013, but they all failed to materialize.<sup id="cite_ref-bodUplh_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bodUplh-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-Euromaidan_reforms">Post-Euromaidan reforms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-Euromaidan reforms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_decommunization_laws" title="Ukrainian decommunization laws">Ukrainian decommunization laws</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Decommunization_in_Ukraine_watch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Decommunization_in_Ukraine_watch.jpg/220px-Decommunization_in_Ukraine_watch.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Decommunization_in_Ukraine_watch.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="228" data-file-height="228" /></a><figcaption>Pulling down the <a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_in_Kharkiv" title="Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv">statue of Lenin in Kharkiv</a> on 28 September 2014.</figcaption></figure> <p>During and after <a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a>, starting with the fall of the monument to Lenin in <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a> on 8 December 2013, several Lenin monuments and statues were removed or destroyed by protesters.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc32267075-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2014, a year before the formal, nationwide decommunization process in Ukraine local authorities removed and altered communist symbols and place names, as in <a href="/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Dnipropetrovsk">Dnipropetrovsk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-usatoday.com_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday.com-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation on decommunization.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was submitted by the <a href="/wiki/Second_Yatsenyuk_Government" title="Second Yatsenyuk Government">Second Yatsenyuk Government</a>, banning the promotion of symbols of "<a href="/wiki/Soviet_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Ukraine">Communist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi Ukraine">National Socialist</a> <a href="/wiki/Totalitarian_regime" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalitarian regime">totalitarian regimes</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-newsweek321663_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsweek321663-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-interfax259775_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-interfax259775-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the main provisions of the bill was the recognition of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>'s regime as "criminal" and one that "pursued a state terror policy".<sup id="cite_ref-interfax259775_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-interfax259775-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The legislation prohibits the use of communist symbols and propaganda and also bans all symbols and propaganda of <a href="/wiki/National-socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="National-socialism">national-socialism</a> and its values and any activities of <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist">fascist</a> groups in Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-interfax259775_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-interfax259775-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ban applies to monuments, place and street names.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc32267075-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ban does not apply to <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> monuments and when symbols are located in a cemetery.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc32267075-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dwdc9415_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dwdc9415-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Expressing pro-communist views was not made illegal.<sup id="cite_ref-ectniiU_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ectniiU-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ban on communist symbols did result in the removal of hundreds of statues, the replacement of street signs and the renaming of populated places including some of Ukraine's biggest cities like <a href="/wiki/Dnipro" title="Dnipro">Dnipro</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc32267075-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city administration of <a href="/wiki/Dnipro" title="Dnipro">Dnipro</a> estimated in June 2015 that 80 streets, embankments, squares, and boulevards would have to be renamed.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxim_Eristavi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maxim Eristavi (page does not exist)">Maxim Eristavi</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hromadske.TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Hromadske.TV">Hromadske.TV</a> estimated late April 2015 that the nationwide renaming would cost around $1.5 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-bodUplh_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bodUplh-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The legislation also granted special legal status to veterans of the "struggle for <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_independence" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian independence">Ukrainian independence</a>" from 1917 to 1991 (the lifespan of the Soviet Union).<sup id="cite_ref-newsweek321663_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsweek321663-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same day, the parliament also passed a law that replaced the term "<a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War_(term)" title="Great Patriotic War (term)">Great Patriotic War</a>" in the national <a href="/wiki/Lexicon" title="Lexicon">lexicon</a> with "<a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>" from 1939 to 1945 (instead of 1941–45 as is the case with the "Great Patriotic War"),<sup id="cite_ref-newsweek321663_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsweek321663-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lat13515du_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lat13515du-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a change of great significance.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 May 2015, <a href="/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine">President of Ukraine</a> <a href="/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko" title="Petro Poroshenko">Petro Poroshenko</a> signed the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_decommunization_laws" title="Ukrainian decommunization laws">Decommunisation Laws</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-decommunizaion_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-decommunizaion-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This started a six-month period for the removal of communist monuments and renaming of public places named after communist-related themes.<sup id="cite_ref-decommunizaion_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-decommunizaion-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg/200px-Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg/300px-Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg/400px-Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR.svg/200px-Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR.svg/300px-Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR.svg/400px-Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="892" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Symbols of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (flag and emblem).</div></div></div></div> <p>The Ukrainian decommunization law applies, but is not limited to: </p> <ul><li>the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Flag of the Soviet Union">Flag of the Soviet Union</a></li> <li>the flags of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic</a> and of the <a href="/wiki/Flags_of_the_Soviet_Republics" title="Flags of the Soviet Republics">14 other republics</a> of the Soviet Union, as well as the flags of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and abroad<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/State_Emblem_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="State Emblem of the Soviet Union">State Emblem of the Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emblems_of_the_Soviet_Republics" title="Emblems of the Soviet Republics">its constituent republics</a> as well as the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and abroad<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/State_Anthem_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="State Anthem of the Soviet Union">State Anthem of the Soviet Union</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_anthems_of_the_Soviet_Union_and_Union_Republics" class="mw-redirect" title="National anthems of the Soviet Union and Union Republics">republics</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Red_star" title="Red star">Red star</a></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle" title="Hammer and sickle">Hammer and sickle</a></li> <li>images bearing the likeness of <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Il_Sung" title="Kim Il Sung">Kim Il Sung</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a></li> <li>military uniforms</li></ul> <p>The laws were published in <i><a href="/wiki/Holos_Ukrayiny" title="Holos Ukrayiny">Holos Ukrayiny</a></i> on 20 May 2015; this made them come into force officially the next day.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 3 June 2015, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory published a list of 22 cities and 44 villages subject to renaming.<sup id="cite_ref-22_cities_and_44_villages_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22_cities_and_44_villages-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By far most of these places were in the <a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a> region in <a href="/wiki/East_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="East Ukraine">East Ukraine</a>; the others were situated in <a href="/wiki/Central_Ukraine" title="Central Ukraine">Central Ukraine</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="South Ukraine">South Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22_cities_and_44_villages_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22_cities_and_44_villages-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the <i>Decommunisation Laws</i> the municipal governments had until 21 November 2015 to change the name of the settlement they govern.<sup id="cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For settlements that failed to rename, the <a href="/wiki/Oblasts_of_Ukraine" title="Oblasts of Ukraine">provincial</a> authorities had until 21 May 2016 to change the name.<sup id="cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If after that date the settlement still retained its old name the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Ministers_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine">Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine</a> renamed the settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 24 July 2015 decree based on the decommunization laws, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry stripped the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(renewed)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)">Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Workers_and_Peasants" title="Communist Party of Workers and Peasants">Communist Party of Workers and Peasants</a> of their right to participate in elections and it stated it was continuing the court actions (that started in July 2014) to end the registration of Ukraine's communist parties.<sup id="cite_ref-Banukcom24715_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Banukcom24715-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 30 September 2015, the District Administrative Court in Kyiv banned the parties Communist Party of Workers and Peasants and Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed); they both did not appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-scpubb_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scpubb-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2015, a statue of Lenin in <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesa</a> was converted into a statue of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> villain <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 December 2015, the Kyiv District Administrative Court validated the claim of the Ministry of Justice in full, banning the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-unian_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unian-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-theguardian_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theguardian-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party appealed this ban at the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ukctec_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ukctec-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:508px;max-width:508px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5.jpg/250px-%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5.jpg/375px-%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5.jpg/500px-%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mykolaiv_town_hall_June_2017_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Mykolaiv_town_hall_June_2017_cropped.jpg/250px-Mykolaiv_town_hall_June_2017_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Mykolaiv_town_hall_June_2017_cropped.jpg/375px-Mykolaiv_town_hall_June_2017_cropped.jpg 1.5x, 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The star, reminiscent of the Soviet era <a href="/wiki/Red_star" title="Red star">Red star</a> still visible in the 2006 picture, was replaced in November 2016 by the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ukraine" title="Coat of arms of Ukraine">coat of arms of Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></div></div> <p>In March 2016, statues of Lenin, <a href="/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky" title="Felix Dzerzhinsky">Felix Dzerzhinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Kirov" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergey Kirov">Sergey Kirov</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Komsomol" title="Komsomol">Komsomol</a> monument were removed or taken down in the eastern city of <a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia" title="Zaporizhzhia">Zaporizhzhia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-In_pictures:_Ukraine_removes_communist-era_symbols_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-In_pictures:_Ukraine_removes_communist-era_symbols-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The statue overlooking the <a href="/wiki/Dnieper_Hydroelectric_Station" title="Dnieper Hydroelectric Station">Dnieper Hydroelectric Station</a> (formerly named Lenin Dam) was the largest remaining Lenin statue in Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-In_pictures:_Ukraine_removes_communist-era_symbols_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-In_pictures:_Ukraine_removes_communist-era_symbols-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 19 May 2016, the Ukrainian parliament voted to rename Ukraine's fourth-largest city <a href="/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Dnipropetrovsk">Dnipropetrovsk</a> to "Dnipro".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The renaming of various locations was signed into the law on 20 May 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Ukrainian parliament declared in July 2016 that the new names of places in <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> under full Russian control since the <a href="/wiki/2014_Russian_annexation_of_Crimea" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Russian annexation of Crimea">2014 Russian annexation of Crimea</a>, "will enter force with the return of temporarily occupied territory of the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Republic_of_Crimea" title="Autonomous Republic of Crimea">Autonomous Republic of Crimea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a> under the general <a href="/wiki/Jurisdiction" title="Jurisdiction">jurisdiction</a> of Ukraine."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2017, 46 Ukrainian MPs, mainly from the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc" title="Opposition Bloc">Opposition Bloc</a> faction, appealed to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to declare the 2015 decommunization laws unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-communismnazism30060259_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-communismnazism30060259-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Director of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Institute_of_National_Remembrance" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance">Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance</a> <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Viatrovych" title="Volodymyr Viatrovych">Volodymyr Viatrovych</a> stated in February 2018 that "De-communism in the context of depriving the symbols of the totalitarian regime has actually been completed".<sup id="cite_ref-UP7171UP_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UP7171UP-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although according to him the city of <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a> was lagging behind.<sup id="cite_ref-UP7171UP_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UP7171UP-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Central_Election_Commission_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Election Commission of Ukraine">Central Election Commission of Ukraine</a> refused to register the candidacy of (leader of Communist Party) <a href="/wiki/Petro_Symonenko" title="Petro Symonenko">Petro Symonenko</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2019 Ukrainian presidential election">2019 Ukrainian presidential election</a> due to the fact that the statute, name and symbolism of the Communist Party of Ukraine did not comply with the 2015 decommunization laws.<sup id="cite_ref-7206166dclUscS_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7206166dclUscS-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Symonenko appealed the decision, but the court of appeal confirmed decision of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine. </p><p>It was proposed that the <a href="/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast" title="Dnipropetrovsk Oblast">oblast of Dnipropetrovsk</a> would be renamed to "Sicheslav"<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. </p><p>On 16 July 2019, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine upheld the 2015 <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_decommunization_laws" title="Ukrainian decommunization laws">Ukrainian decommunization laws</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-communismnazism30060259_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-communismnazism30060259-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 7 November 2020 in the village <a href="/wiki/Mala_Rohan" title="Mala Rohan">Mala Rohan</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Emblem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic</a> was dismantled from the facade of a school.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reforms_following_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">Reforms following the Russian invasion of Ukraine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reforms following the Russian invasion of Ukraine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 27 April 2022 (during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>), the 27-foot (8 m) Soviet-era bronze statue under the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Friendship_Arch" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Friendship Arch">People's Friendship Arch</a> in Kyiv, representing Russian–Ukrainian friendship, was removed by order of Mayor of Kyiv <a href="/wiki/Vitali_Klitschko" title="Vitali Klitschko">Vitali Klitschko</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:254px;max-width:254px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kyiv_-_Motherland_monument_250502.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Kyiv_-_Motherland_monument_250502.jpg/250px-Kyiv_-_Motherland_monument_250502.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Kyiv_-_Motherland_monument_250502.jpg/375px-Kyiv_-_Motherland_monument_250502.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Kyiv_-_Motherland_monument_250502.jpg/500px-Kyiv_-_Motherland_monument_250502.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1109" data-file-height="1489" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">The <a href="/wiki/Motherland_Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="Motherland Monument">Motherland Monument</a> in Kyiv in 2002.</div></div></div></div> <p>On 1 August 2023, the <a href="/wiki/State_Emblem_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="State Emblem of the Soviet Union">Soviet emblem</a> was removed from the <a href="/wiki/Motherland_Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="Motherland Monument">Motherland Monument</a> (part of the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_the_History_of_Ukraine_in_the_Second_World_War" title="National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War">National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War</a>) in Kyiv.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its replacement, the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Trident" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Trident">Ukrainian Trident</a>, was fully instaled on 23 August 2023 (the day before <a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_of_Ukraine" title="Independence Day of Ukraine">Independence Day of Ukraine</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monument was also renamed to <i>Mother Ukraine</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 24 October 2023 <a href="/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a> signed Law No. 8263 that abolished the concept of <a href="/wiki/Urban-type_settlements_in_Ukraine" title="Urban-type settlements in Ukraine">urban-type settlements in Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7425475UTSDC_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7425475UTSDC-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Law No. 8263 was meant to facilitate "de-Sovietization of the procedure for solving certain issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine."<sup id="cite_ref-7425475UTSDC_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7425475UTSDC-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 30 January 2024, the governor of <a href="/wiki/Lviv_Oblast" title="Lviv Oblast">Lviv Oblast</a> said that the region was the first in Ukraine to remove all of its communist-era monuments.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kharkiv_city_hall_-_UkSSR_coat_of_arms.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Kharkiv_city_hall_-_UkSSR_coat_of_arms.jpg/250px-Kharkiv_city_hall_-_UkSSR_coat_of_arms.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Kharkiv_city_hall_-_UkSSR_coat_of_arms.jpg/375px-Kharkiv_city_hall_-_UkSSR_coat_of_arms.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Kharkiv_city_hall_-_UkSSR_coat_of_arms.jpg/500px-Kharkiv_city_hall_-_UkSSR_coat_of_arms.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3580" data-file-height="2644" /></a><figcaption>The Ukrainian SSR emblem seen in top of the city hall in <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a>, which was removed after the laws took effect.</figcaption></figure> <p>On 18 May 2015, the <a href="/wiki/OSCE" class="mw-redirect" title="OSCE">OSCE</a> expressed concern that the laws could negatively impact the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_Ukraine" title="Freedom of the press in Ukraine">freedom of the press in Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-oscedc18515_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oscedc18515-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The OSCE also regretted what it perceived as a lack of opportunity of <a href="/wiki/Civil_society" title="Civil society">civil society</a> to participate in public discussions about the laws.<sup id="cite_ref-oscedc18515_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oscedc18515-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv_Human_Rights_Protection_Group" title="Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group">Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group</a> stated (in May 2015) the laws "(one of which) effectively criminalizes public expression of views held by many <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-lat13515du_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lat13515du-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 18 December 2015, the <a href="/wiki/Venice_Commission" title="Venice Commission">Venice Commission</a> stated that Ukraine's <a href="/wiki/Decommunization" title="Decommunization">decommunization</a> laws did not comply with European legislative standards.<sup id="cite_ref-VCntDLU191215_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCntDLU191215-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was in particular critical about the banning of <a href="/wiki/Category:Communist_parties_in_Ukraine" title="Category:Communist parties in Ukraine">communist parties</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VCntDLU191215_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCntDLU191215-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2015, Russian lawmakers claimed that it was "<a href="/wiki/Cynicism_(contemporary)" title="Cynicism (contemporary)">cynical</a>" to put <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazi</a> symbol on par with each other, and <a href="/wiki/Russian_people%27s_militias_in_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian people's militias in Ukraine">Russian-backed paramilitaries</a> have condemned the law.<sup id="cite_ref-dwdc9415_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dwdc9415-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The then leader and head of the self-proclaimed <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk People's Republic</a> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Zakharchenko" title="Alexander Zakharchenko">Alexander Zakharchenko</a> stated in late February 2016 that when renamed cities "return under our jurisdiction", they would be renamed to their pre-decommunized name.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2022, in connection with a presidential address of Russian president <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> in the midst of the <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Russo-Ukrainian_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis">Russo-Ukrainian crisis</a>, Putin claimed that Ukraine's decommunization does not make any sense because "modern Ukraine was created by communist Russia, and specifically Lenin". <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vitaly_Chervonenko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vitaly Chervonenko (page does not exist)">Vitaly Chervonenko</a> from the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> noted how carefully Putin kept silent about the <a href="/wiki/Ukraine_after_the_Russian_Revolution" title="Ukraine after the Russian Revolution">independent Ukrainian state formations of 1917–1920</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian%E2%80%93Soviet_War" title="Ukrainian–Soviet War">Kyiv's war with Lenin's Bolshevik government</a>, whose purpose was to include Ukraine in <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Bolshevik Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_toponyms_that_were_changed_as_part_of_decommunization_in_2016" title="List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016">List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016</a> and <a href="/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Vladimir_Lenin_in_Ukraine" title="Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine">Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine</a></div> <p>Since 16 December 2015 three communist parties are banned in Ukraine (the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(renewed)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)">Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Workers_and_Peasants" title="Communist Party of Workers and Peasants">Communist Party of Workers and Peasants</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-scpubb_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scpubb-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ukctec_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ukctec-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only party that appealed this ban was the Communist Party of Ukraine; this resulted in the court's decision to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine did not come into force.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> However, the April 2015 decommunization law contains a norm that allows the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Justice of Ukraine">Ministry of Justice</a> to prohibit the Communist Party from participating in elections.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Ukraine had 5,500 Lenin monuments in 1991, declining to 1,300 by December 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-LS_Out_of_Sight_C_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LS_Out_of_Sight_C-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More than 700 Lenin monuments were removed and/or destroyed from February 2014 (when 376 came down) to December 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-LS_Out_of_Sight_C_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LS_Out_of_Sight_C-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 16 January 2017 the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Institute_of_National_Remembrance" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance">Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance</a> announced that 1,320 Lenin monuments were dismantled during decommunization.<sup id="cite_ref-UINR16117_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UINR16117-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 January 2017, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance stated that 51,493 streets, squares and "other facilities" had been renamed due to decommunization.<sup id="cite_ref-UINR16117_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UINR16117-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By June 2016 there were renamed 19 <a href="/wiki/Raions_of_Ukraine" title="Raions of Ukraine">raions</a>, 27 <a href="/wiki/Urban_districts_of_Ukraine" title="Urban districts of Ukraine">urban districts</a>, 29 cities, 48 urban-type settlements, 119 rural settlements and 711 villages. The fourth largest city was renamed from Dnipropetrovsk to <a href="/wiki/Dnipro" title="Dnipro">Dnipro</a>. In the second-largest city of Ukraine,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a>, more than 200 streets, 5 administrative <a href="/wiki/Raion" title="Raion">raions</a>, 4 parks and <a href="/wiki/Maidan_Konstytutsii_(Kharkiv_Metro)" title="Maidan Konstytutsii (Kharkiv Metro)">1 metro station</a> had been renamed by early February 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In all of 2016, 51,493 streets and 987 cities and villages were renamed, 25 raions were renamed and 1,320 <a href="/wiki/Lenin_monuments" class="mw-redirect" title="Lenin monuments">Lenin monuments</a> and 1,069 monuments to other communist figures removed.<sup id="cite_ref-rdiU16_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rdiU16-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some villages Lenin statues were remade into "non-communist historical figures" to save money.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the most prominent examples was Lenin monument in <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesa</a>, which was remade into the monument to <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2019, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> reported that the two Lenin statues in the <a href="/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Chernobyl Exclusion Zone">Chernobyl Exclusion Zone</a> were the only two remaining statues of Lenin in Ukraine, if not taking into account <a href="/wiki/Temporarily_occupied_and_uncontrolled_territories_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Temporarily occupied and uncontrolled territories of Ukraine">occupied territories of Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2021 <i>"<a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</a>"</i> located three remaining Lenin statues in three (Ukrainian controlled) small villages.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2021, 24 Ukrainian streets were still named after former Russian <a href="/wiki/Cosmonaut" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmonaut">cosmonaut</a> and current <a href="/wiki/United_Russia" title="United Russia">United Russia</a> member of the Russian <a href="/wiki/State_Duma" title="State Duma">State Duma</a> <a href="/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova" title="Valentina Tereshkova">Valentina Tereshkova</a> (6 of them in <a href="/wiki/Temporarily_occupied_territories_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine">parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia</a><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), according to the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_decommunization_laws" title="Ukrainian decommunization laws">2015 decommunization laws</a> they should have been renamed.<sup id="cite_ref-474682vulitsyavalentiniUD_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-474682vulitsyavalentiniUD-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were renamed in 2022. The last Lenin statue in Ukraine (excluding territories currently annexed by Russia or occupied by separatists) was demolished in Stari Troyany, <a href="/wiki/Izmail_Raion" title="Izmail Raion">Izmail Raion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odesa_Oblast" title="Odesa Oblast">Odesa Oblast</a> on 27 January 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The director of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Institute_of_National_Remembrance" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance">Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance</a> <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Viatrovych" title="Volodymyr Viatrovych">Volodymyr Viatrovych</a> stated in February 2018 that the then-still existing <a href="/wiki/State_emblem_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="State emblem of the Soviet Union">Soviet hammer and sickle</a> on the shield of the <a href="/wiki/Motherland_Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="Motherland Monument">Motherland Monument</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a> should be removed to comply with the country's decommunization laws and replace it with the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ukraine" title="Coat of arms of Ukraine">Ukrainian trident</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-UP7171UP_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UP7171UP-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was subsequently done in 2023. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, many Lenin statues across Ukraine, which had been <a href="/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Vladimir_Lenin_in_Ukraine" title="Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine">taken down by the Ukrainians</a> in the preceding years, were <a href="/wiki/Soviet_imagery_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Soviet imagery during the Russo-Ukrainian War">re-erected</a> by the Russians in the Russian-controlled areas.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Polling">Polling</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Polling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A November 2016 poll, showed that 48% of respondents supported a ban on Communist ideology in Ukraine, 36% were against it and 16% were undecided. It also showed that 41% of respondents supported the initiative to dismantle all monuments to Lenin in the country, whereas 48% were against it and 11% were undecided.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 8 April 2022, according to a poll by the sociological group <a href="/wiki/Rating_(sociological_group)" title="Rating (sociological group)"><i>Rating</i></a>, 76% of <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a> support the initiative to rename streets and other objects whose names are associated with the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols" title="Bans on communist symbols">Bans on communist symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decommunization" title="Decommunization">Decommunization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Ukraine" title="Human rights in Ukraine">Human rights in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Vladimir_Lenin_in_Ukraine" title="Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine">Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_communist_monuments_in_Ukraine" title="List of communist monuments in Ukraine">List of communist monuments in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_toponyms_that_were_changed_as_part_of_decommunization_in_2016" title="List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016">List of Ukrainian toponyms that were changed as part of decommunization in 2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lustration_in_Ukraine" title="Lustration in Ukraine">Lustration in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derussification_in_Ukraine" title="Derussification in Ukraine">Derussification in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_imagery_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Soviet imagery during the Russo-Ukrainian War">Soviet imagery during the Russo-Ukrainian War</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This ban does not include the national flags of the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Hungary, Laos, Poland and Vietnam.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The ban is not extended to the national emblems of Belarus, Cuba, Laos, North Macedonia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This does not affect the Anthems of Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and formerly, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. They all retained their Soviet-era melody with new lyrics written in its place.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Since the <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation</a>, the status of the Crimea and of the city of Sevastopol is <a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Crimea" title="Political status of Crimea">under dispute between Russia and Ukraine</a>; Ukraine and the majority of the international community considers the Crimea and Sevastopol an integral part of Ukraine, while Russia, on the other hand, considers the Crimea and Sevastopol an integral part of Russia, with Sevastopol functioning as a <a href="/wiki/Federal_cities_of_Russia" title="Federal cities of Russia">federal city</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_Federal_District" title="Crimean Federal District">Crimean Federal District</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ukraine_crisis_timeline_BBC_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ukraine_crisis_timeline_BBC-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CCTV_UNR_C=U_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CCTV_UNR_C=U-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There were (also) Tereshkova streets in <a href="/wiki/Lviv_Oblast" title="Lviv Oblast">Lviv Oblast</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Busk,_Ukraine" title="Busk, Ukraine">Busk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rivne_Oblast" title="Rivne Oblast">Rivne Oblast</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Radyvyliv" title="Radyvyliv">Radyvyliv</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sarny" title="Sarny">Sarny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khmelnytskyi_Oblast" title="Khmelnytskyi Oblast">Khmelnytskyi Oblast</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Dunaivtsi" title="Dunaivtsi">Dunaivtsi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cherkasy_Oblast" title="Cherkasy Oblast">Cherkasy Oblast</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Smila" title="Smila">Smila</a> and in some other towns and villages.<sup id="cite_ref-474682vulitsyavalentiniUD_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-474682vulitsyavalentiniUD-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Decommunization_in_Ukraine&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link 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a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRostyslav_Khotin2009" class="citation news cs1">Rostyslav Khotin (27 November 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8380433.stm">"Ukraine tears down 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 October</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Ukraine+tears+down+controversial+statue&rft.date=2009-11-27&rft.au=Rostyslav+Khotin&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Feurope%2F8380433.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecommunization+in+Ukraine" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ectniiU-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ectniiU_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ectniiU_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMotyl2015" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_J._Motyl" title="Alexander J. Motyl">Motyl, Alexander J.</a> (28 April 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2015-04-28/kievs-purge">"Decommunizing Ukraine"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Foreign_Affairs" title="Foreign Affairs">Foreign Affairs</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 May</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Foreign+Affairs&rft.atitle=Decommunizing+Ukraine&rft.date=2015-04-28&rft.aulast=Motyl&rft.aufirst=Alexander+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foreignaffairs.com%2Farticles%2Fukraine%2F2015-04-28%2Fkievs-purge&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecommunization+in+Ukraine" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-decommunizaion-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-decommunizaion_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-decommunizaion_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-decommunizaion_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/15/7068057/">Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ukrainska_Pravda" title="Ukrainska Pravda">Ukrainska Pravda</a>. 15 May 2015<br /><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/265988.html">Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Interfax-Ukraine" title="Interfax-Ukraine">Interfax-Ukraine</a>. 15 May 2015</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bbc32267075-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bbc32267075_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShevchenko2015" class="citation news cs1">Shevchenko, Vitaly (14 April 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32267075">"Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 May</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Goodbye%2C+Lenin%3A+Ukraine+moves+to+ban+communist+symbols&rft.date=2015-04-14&rft.aulast=Shevchenko&rft.aufirst=Vitaly&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-32267075&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecommunization+in+Ukraine" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22_cities_and_44_villages-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-22_cities_and_44_villages_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-22_cities_and_44_villages_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-22_cities_and_44_villages_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Ukrainian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/06/4/7070191">In Ukraine rename 22 cities and 44 villages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainska_Pravda" title="Ukrainska Pravda">Ukrainska Pravda</a> (4 June 2015)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-depo.ua_new_names_Ukraine_6-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Ukrainian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://poltava.depo.ua/ukr/poltava/komsomolsk-u-bud-yakomu-vipadku-pereymenuyut-01102015183700">"Komsomolsk in any case be renamed"</a>, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Depo.ua&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Depo.ua (page does not exist)">depo.ua</a></i> (1 October 2015)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dwdc9415-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dwdc9415_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dwdc9415_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dwdc9415_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dw.de/ukraine-lawmakers-ban-communist-and-nazi-propaganda/a-18372853">"Ukraine lawmakers ban 'Communist and Nazi propaganda<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle">Deutsche Welle</a></i> (9 April 2015)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-oscedc18515-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-oscedc18515_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-oscedc18515_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-oscedc18515_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.osce.org/fom/158581">"New laws in Ukraine potential threat to free expression and free media, OSCE Representative says"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/OSCE" class="mw-redirect" title="OSCE">OSCE</a></i> (18 May 2015)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/205417.html">"Turchynov asks Justice Ministry to ban Communist Party of Ukraine"</a>. <i>Interfax-Ukraine</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="http://www.memory.gov.ua/news/z-50-tisyach-pereimenovanikh-obektiv-toponimiki-lishe-34-buli-nazvani-na-chest-banderi">With 50 Thousand Renamed Objects Place Names, Only 34 Are Named After Bandera</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171019054457/http://www.memory.gov.ua/news/z-50-tisyach-pereimenovanikh-obektiv-toponimiki-lishe-34-buli-nazvani-na-chest-banderi">Archived</a> 19 October 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Institute_of_National_Remembrance" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance">Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance</a> (16 January 2017)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.euronews.com/2014/10/23/kharkiv-never-had-eastern-western-conflicts/">Kharkiv "never had eastern-western conflicts"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Euronews" title="Euronews">Euronews</a></i> (23 October 2014)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Ukrainian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/02/3/7097721/">In Kharkiv "dekomunizuvaly" has 48 streets and 5 regions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainska_Pravda" title="Ukrainska Pravda">Ukrainska Pravda</a> (3 February 2015)<br /><span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sq.com.ua/rus/news/vlast/03.02.2016/v_harkove_pereimenovali_tri_rajona/">In Kharkiv was renamed three district</a>, SQ (3 February 2015)<br /><span class="languageicon">(in Ukrainian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ua.korrespondent.net/city/kharkov/3624201-u-kharkovi-vyrishyly-ne-pereimenovuvaty-zhovtnevyi-i-frunzenskyi-raiony">In Kharkiv, decided not to rename October and Frunze district</a>, <a href="/wiki/Korrespondent.net" title="Korrespondent.net">Korrespondent.net</a> (3 February 2015)<br /><span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://korrespondent.net/city/kharkov/3624201-v-kharkove-reshyly-ne-pereymenovyvat-oktiabrskyi-y-frunzenskyi-raiony">In Kharkiv, it was decided not to rename the Oktyabrsky and the Frunze district</a>, <a href="/wiki/Korrespondent.net" title="Korrespondent.net">Korrespondent.net</a> (3 February 2015)<br /><span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sq.com.ua/rus/news/vlast/20.11.2015/gorsovet_pereimenoval_170_ulic/">List of 170 renamed streets</a>, SQ (20 November 2015)<br /><span class="languageicon">(in Ukrainian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/harkovskiy-gorsovet-pereimenoval-173-ulitsy-1448020126.html">Kharkiv city council renamed 173 streets, 4 parks and a metro station</a>, <a href="/wiki/RBC_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="RBC Ukraine">RBC Ukraine</a> (20 November 2015)<br /><span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sq.com.ua/rus/news/obschestvo/03.02.2016/v_harkove_pereimenovali_esche_50_ulic_spisok/">In Kharkiv was renamed even 50 streets: list</a>, SQ (3 February 2015)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Ukrainian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2017/06/13/7146828/">Decommunisation in Zaporizhzhia, from Lenin "fashioned" Orlyk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainska_Pravda" title="Ukrainska Pravda">Ukrainska Pravda</a> (13 June 2017)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFiona_Macdonald2015" class="citation web cs1">Fiona Macdonald (23 October 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151023-the-man-who-turned-lenin-into-darth-vader">"The man who turned Lenin into Darth Vader"</a>. <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Not In These Ukrainian Villages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</a> (19 January 2021)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-474682vulitsyavalentiniUD-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-474682vulitsyavalentiniUD_71-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-474682vulitsyavalentiniUD_71-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Ukrainian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lb.ua/blog/vadym_pozdniakov/474682_kudi_vede_vulitsya_valentini.html">Where does Valentina Tereshkova Street lead?</a>, LB.ua (6 January 2021)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.svoboda.org/a/31072087.html">"На Украине снесли последний памятник Владимиру Ленину"</a>. <i>Радио Свобода</i> (in Russian). 27 January 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BE+%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0&rft.atitle=%D0%9D%D0%B0+%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5+%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA+%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%83+%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83&rft.date=2021-01-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.svoboda.org%2Fa%2F31072087.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecommunization+in+Ukraine" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarding2022" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Luke_Harding" title="Luke Harding">Harding, Luke</a> (23 April 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/23/back-in-the-ussr-lenin-statues-and-soviet-flags-reappear-in-russian-controlled-cities">"Back in the USSR: Lenin statues and Soviet flags reappear in Russian-controlled cities"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220504233450/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/23/back-in-the-ussr-lenin-statues-and-soviet-flags-reappear-in-russian-controlled-cities">Archived</a> from the original on 4 May 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="background-color:#eeeeee;"><div><b>21 November 2013 – 23 February 2014</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Main<br />topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Euromaidan" title="Timeline of the Euromaidan">Timeline of the Euromaidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domestic_responses_to_the_Euromaidan" title="Domestic responses to the Euromaidan">Domestic responses to the Euromaidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Euromaidan" title="International reactions to the Euromaidan">International reactions to the Euromaidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casualties_during_the_2013%E2%80%932014_Ukraine_crisis" title="Casualties during the 2013–2014 Ukraine crisis">Casualties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maidan_casualties" title="Maidan casualties">Heavenly Hundred</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Heavenly_Hundred_Heroes" title="Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes">Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Vladimir_Lenin_in_Ukraine" title="Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine">Damaged communist monuments</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="8" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ukraine_EU.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Ukraine_EU.svg/89px-Ukraine_EU.svg.png" decoding="async" width="89" height="60" class="mw-file-element" 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title="17 December 2013 Russian–Ukrainian action plan">Ukrainian–Russian action plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Maidan" title="Anti-Maidan">Anti-Maidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasylkiv_terrorists_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasylkiv terrorists case">Vasylkiv terrorists case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-protest_laws_in_Ukraine" title="Anti-protest laws in Ukraine">Anti-protest laws in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes" title="2014 Odesa clashes">2014 Odesa clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Hrushevskoho_Street_riots" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots">2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Euromaidan_regional_state_administration_occupations" title="2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations">2014 RSA occupations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agreement_on_settlement_of_political_crisis_in_Ukraine" title="Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine">Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Aftermath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine" title="2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine">2014 pro-Russian unrest</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine" title="Timeline of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine">Timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russian military intervention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Timeline of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">Timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas" title="War in Donbas">War in Donbas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Yatsenyuk_government" title="First Yatsenyuk government">First Yatsenyuk government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lustration_in_Ukraine" title="Lustration in Ukraine">Lustration in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Decommunization in Ukraine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2014 Ukrainian presidential election">2014 Ukrainian presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_local_elections" title="2014 Ukrainian local elections">2014 Ukrainian local elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Kyiv_local_election" title="2014 Kyiv local election">2014 Kyiv local election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum" title="2014 Crimean status referendum">2014 Crimean status referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Donbas_status_referendums" title="2014 Donbas status referendums">2014 Donbas status referendums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Main<br />places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maidan_Nezalezhnosti" title="Maidan Nezalezhnosti">Maidan Nezalezhnosti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mezhyhirya_Residence" title="Mezhyhirya Residence">Mezhyhirya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khreshchatyk" title="Khreshchatyk">Khreshchatyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lypky" title="Lypky">Lypky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bankova_Street" title="Bankova Street">Bankova Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Square_(Kyiv)" title="European Square (Kyiv)">European Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrushevsky_Street_(Kyiv)" title="Hrushevsky Street (Kyiv)">Hrushevskoho Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valeriy_Lobanovskyi_Dynamo_Stadium" title="Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium">Dynamo Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_City_Council" title="Kyiv City Council">Kyiv City Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trade_Unions_Building_(Kyiv)" title="Trade Unions Building (Kyiv)">Trade Unions Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_House" title="Ukrainian House">Ukrainian House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariinskyi_Park" title="Mariinskyi Park">Mariinskyi Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_Palace" title="October Palace">October Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Conservatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Conservatory">Kyiv Conservatory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">European<br />integration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Ukraine–European Union relations">Ukraine–European Union relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Partnership" title="Eastern Partnership">Eastern Partnership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Association_Agreement" title="European Union Association Agreement">European Union Association Agreement</a> <ul><li><a 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href="/wiki/Euromaidan_Press" title="Euromaidan Press">Euromaidan Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Parliamentary</a> opposition parties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Batkivshchyna" title="Batkivshchyna">Batkivshchyna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)" title="Svoboda (political party)">Svoboda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Democratic_Alliance_for_Reform" title="Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform">UDAR</a></li></ul></li> <li>Other parties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists" title="Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists">Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Alliance_(Ukraine)" title="Democratic Alliance (Ukraine)">Democratic Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Assembly_%E2%80%93_Ukrainian_People%27s_Self-Defence" title="Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence">UNA–UNSO</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Bulatov" title="Dmytro Bulatov">Dmytro Bulatov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Yarosh" title="Dmytro Yarosh">Dmytro Yarosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refat_Chubarov" title="Refat Chubarov">Refat Chubarov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Anti-protest<br />figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Azarov_government" title="Second Azarov government">Second Azarov government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Ukraine)" title="Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)">Ministry of Internal Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_Troops_of_Ukraine" title="Internal Troops of Ukraine">Internal Troops of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine" title="Security Service of Ukraine">Security Service of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berkut_(special_police_force)" title="Berkut (special police force)">Berkut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Militsiya_(Ukraine)" title="Militsiya (Ukraine)">Militsiya (Ukraine)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Regions" title="Party of Regions">Party of Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titushky" title="Titushky">Titushky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_Wolves" title="Night Wolves">Night Wolves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Cossacks" title="Don Cossacks">Don Cossacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimaidan" class="mw-redirect" title="Antimaidan">Antimaidan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Lead figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serhiy_Arbuzov" title="Serhiy Arbuzov">Serhiy Arbuzov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitaliy_Zakharchenko" title="Vitaliy Zakharchenko">Vitaliy Zakharchenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Yefremov" title="Oleksandr Yefremov">Oleksandr Yefremov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriy_Klyuyev" title="Andriy Klyuyev">Andriy Klyuyev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hennadiy_Kernes" title="Hennadiy Kernes">Hennadiy Kernes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykhailo_Dobkin" title="Mykhailo Dobkin">Mykhailo Dobkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Pshonka" title="Viktor Pshonka">Viktor Pshonka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olena_Lukash" title="Olena Lukash">Olena Lukash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuriy_Boyko" title="Yuriy Boyko">Yuriy Boyko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Kozhara" title="Leonid Kozhara">Leonid Kozhara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Tabachnyk" title="Dmytro Tabachnyk">Dmytro Tabachnyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Klymenko_(politician)" title="Oleksandr Klymenko (politician)">Oleksandr Klymenko</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Anti-communism_in_Europe_since_1989" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed 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Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague_Declaration" title="Prague Declaration">Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Ribbon_Day" title="Black Ribbon Day">European Parliament declaration of 23 August 2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Public_Hearing_on_European_Conscience_and_Crimes_of_Totalitarian_Communism:_20_Years_After" title="European Public Hearing on European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After">European Public Hearing on European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Parliament_resolution_of_2_April_2009_on_European_conscience_and_totalitarianism" title="European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism">European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vilnius_Declaration" title="Vilnius 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