The Deputies of the Kirovohrad Regional Council appealed to the Parliament of Ukraine with a request to speed up the process of renaming the Kirovohrad region. Communities are also asking to complete decommunization in their territories.
This is reported on the Councilʼs website.
"We consider it necessary to appeal to the heads of territorial communities, heads of regional state administrations, city mayors and deputies of all levels of Kirovohrad region with the demand to complete decommunization and de-Russification processes on the territory of Kirovohrad region as soon as possible. We also propose to appeal to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament) with a request to speed up the process of renaming the Kirovohrad region," states the text of the appeal.
- In July 2016, by a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada, the city of Kirovohrad was renamed Kropyvnytskyi.
- In November 2018, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada renamed the Kirovohrad district to Kropyvnytskyi and sent a draft decision on renaming the Kirovohrad region to Kropyvnytskyi for consideration by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. In February 2019, the court recognized this draft decision as constitutional.
- Since then, the renaming process has not been completed.