The Verkhovna Rada failed to adopt a resolution on renaming 336 settlements, which led MPs to block the rostrum. This was reported by MPs on their social media, Komersant ukrainskyi
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It should be noted that 208 MPs voted for the de-Russification and decolonisation of cities, districts, towns and villages on 18 September, which is not enough to pass the resolution.
The failed resolution was supposed to rename 15 cities, seven districts, 54 towns and 267 villages.
According to the MPs, some MPs want to rename them as a package, while others say they should be voted on separately.
Iryna Gerashchenko, a member of the European Solidarity parliamentary faction, said that the legislative initiative was supported by 208 votes out of 226 required.
The MP posted a video showing MPs blocking the rostrum of the parliament and demanding the adoption of the resolution.
At the request of the MPs, the parliamentary leadership closed the meeting and invited the heads of the factions to a conciliation council.
According to Resolution No. 11188, the renaming was to apply to settlements and districts in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovs’k, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions. They contained symbols of Russian imperial policy or did not comply with the norms of the Ukrainian language.
In particular, the city of Novomoskovsk was to be renamed Samar, Pavlohrad to Matviyiv, Synelnykove to Ridnopillia, Pershtotranivsk to Shakhtarsk, Pervomaisk in Luhansk Oblast to Sokologorsk, and Pervomaisk in Mykolaiv Oblast to Olviopol, Molodohvardiysk to Otamanivka, Sievierodonetsk to Siversokodonetsk, Chervonohrad to Sheptytskyi, Yuzhnoukrainsk to Gard, Pivdenne to Port Annental, Druzhba to Khutir-Mykhailivskyi, Krasnohrad to Berestyn, Pervomaisky to Zlatopil, and Vatutine to Bahacheve.
