unusual regulations in Ukraine ban names of streets,towns and products from glorifying communismThis past unusual Year’s Eve marked the last time Ukrainians could pop open “Soviet champagne”, as the Kiev factory that makes it has announced it is changing the popular drink’s name due to a law on decommunisation.
The regulations, or which came into force last May,ban any street, town or product from having names that glorify communism. They also invent it a crime to deny the “criminal character of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991 in Ukraine”.
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Source: theguardian.com