A plywood-covered monument to Pushkin in Odessa was painted with the symbols of "Azov"

A plywood-covered monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in Odessa was painted with symbols of the national battalion "Azov" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). This was reported on October 30 by the Ukrainian edition "Страна.иа ".

"To the cube (from the shields around the monument to Pushkin. — Ed.) the trident and the symbols of Azov have already been applied," the message published on the Telegram channel of the publication says.

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The fact that the monument to Pushkin was boarded up in Odessa became known earlier that day.

In January, the Ukrainian government formed a list of more than 200 geographical objects that will be renamed due to the fact that their names are associated with Russia. The list includes rivers, tracts, parks, natural monuments, nature reserves, reservoirs, forests, and railway stations. It was also reported that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved new names for 20 geographical objects in the Odessa region as part of decommunization and decolonization.

In April, the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture reported that over the past decade, about 1,000 settlements in Ukraine have been renamed as part of the country's decommunization policy.

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