Rada Committee urges Kyiv to consider expert positions on fountain at site of Lenin monument
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy has called on city authorities to take into account expert assessments and public positions when implementing an initiative to install a fountain at the site of the former Vladimir Lenin monument in central Kyiv.
As noted in the Committee’s Facebook post, the meeting: reviewed a government bill on amendments to the law "On the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation"; presented a report by the Rada Commissioner for Human Rights; discussed the city initiative regarding a fountain at the site of the demolished Lenin monument; supported the initiative to create a "Memory Book" for fallen defenders of Ukraine; and heard a report and plans from the State Film Agency of Ukraine.
As reported, there are plans to renovate the public space in central Kyiv at the corner of Taras Shevchenko Boulevard and Khreshchatyk Street. Specifically, at the site of the former Vladimir Lenin monument, plans include landscaping, benches, lighting, convenient paths, and a fountain.
Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP) Oleksandr Alforov expressed the opinion that monuments to Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky and Head of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) Symon Petliura should stand at the sites of the Vladimir Lenin and Mykola Shchors monuments in Kyiv. He also considers the decision to install a fountain at the site of the former Lenin monument to be ideologically dangerous.
