The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) adopted Law No. 8273, which will allow the removal of Soviet and imperial cultural monuments. The Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko called this law "anti-Pushkin".
From now on, there are legal grounds to remove monuments that are a symbol of Russian imperial and Soviet totalitarian policy and ideology from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine.
Therefore, the following sights will not be considered cultural heritage:
- which are dedicated to people who held leadership positions in the Communist Party (the position of district committee secretary and above);
- managers in the highest bodies of power and administration of the USSR, Ukrainian SSR, other union or autonomous Soviet republics;
- dedicated to the events related to the activities of the Communist Party and the establishment of Soviet power on the territory of Ukraine;
- are symbols of Russian imperial or Soviet totalitarian policy.