“The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported in the first reading the draft law No. 12351 on renaming more than a hundred courts, whose names are related to the USSR. Source: card of the draft law in the Verkhovna Rada Verbatim from the explanatory note: “The draft law was developed with the aim of renaming certain courts in accordance with the laws of Ukraine “On the condemnation of the communist and national socialist totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols.””, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
In the first reading, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the draft law No. 12351 on renaming more than a hundred courts, whose names are related to the USSR.
Source: card of the draft law in the Verkhovna Rada
Verbatim from the explanatory note: “The draft law was developed with the aim of renaming certain courts in accordance with the laws of Ukraine “On the condemnation of the communist and national socialist totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols”.
Details: As reported on the Verkhovna Rada portal, at least 103 courts in Ukraine have references to the Soviet regime in their names, which contradicts the law on decommunization. It is proposed to change the names of the courts not only in the territories controlled by Ukraine, but also in the temporarily occupied ones. The website of the Verkhovna Rada reports that the draft law was adopted as a basis, 277 people’s elected representatives voted “for”, and 48.0 votes “against” did not vote.
According to the proposals of the deputies and the State Judicial Administration, which supported the adoption of the draft law, the Kirovsky, Krasnogvardiysky, Krasnoperekopsky, Sovietsky, Pervomaysky and Leninsky courts in Crimea should receive new names, and in the Luhansk Region the Sverdlovsk City Court is included in the list for renaming.
Proposals regarding the renaming of the specified courts are set out taking into account consultations with the Council of Judges of Ukraine, local and appellate general courts of the relevant regions, military-civilian administrations, the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, the representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , as well as taking into account the renaming of the administrative-territorial units in which the relevant courts are located.
Prehistory:
- On September 18, the Verkhovna Rada failed to vote on the de-Russification and renaming of more than 300 settlements. After that, the tribune of the parliament was blocked with the demand to bring the resolution to the session hall again through the committee.
- Later, people’s deputies adopted a resolution on renaming 327 settlements as part of decommunization and de-Russification.
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