The Kiev District Administrative Court has overturned the city council's decision to rename Moskovsky Prospekt into Prospect named after Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera. The corresponding document was published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions of Ukraine.
The rationale for the decision indicates that the prospectus was renamed in violation of the established procedures. In particular, the City Council did not take into account the wishes of a number of public organizations, and also did not conduct the necessary historical research. “In addition, the contested decision was made with violations, since the respondent did not hold a public discussion,” the court said.
The Kyiv City Council decided to rename Moskovsky Prospekt in honor of Bandera in 2016. The streets of Kutuzov and Suvorov also received new names. The deputies justified this by the law on decommunization, despite the fact that it did not contain a ban on perpetuating the memory of these military leaders.
In 1929, Stepan Bandera headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which was banned in Russia. During the Second World War, he actively collaborated with Nazi Germany. In 1959, in Munich, he was eliminated by KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky.
