The Verkhovna
Rada has adopted a resolution to rename several settlements and districts
across Ukraine on Thursday.
According to the explanatory
note, the renaming of geographical objects was carried out within the framework
of de-communisation legislation.
The Verkhovna Rada Committee
on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government suggested renaming
one district, five towns and 169 villages after consideration of 175 proposals
from local authorities.
Offers of local authorities
were supported by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
According to the decree, the
town of Artemivsk is renamed to Bakhmut, the town of Dzerzhynsk becomes
Toretsk, Chervoniy [Red] Lyman - Lyman, Illichivsk – Chornomorsk, and
Chervonozavodske – Zavodske.
The decision comes into force
from the day following the day of its publication.
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