EditorialFootage by NurPhoto
Clip ID
EF-14728
Date
16 Jul 2019
Duration
00:16
Resolution
1920 × 1080
KIEV, UKRAINE

Protest against possible cancellation decommunization law in Ukraine

A gallows and a sculpture of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin are seen during a rally against possible cancellation decommunization law, near the Constitutional Court in Kiev, Ukraine, on 16 July 2019. The Ukrainian Constitutional Court considers the case on the constitutionality of the laws on de-communization. 46 Ukrainian lawmakers, mostly supporters of former Russia-backed President Viktor Yanukovych, addressed the court to repeal the laws "On the cleansing of power" and "On condemnation of the communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of their symbols. On April 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a law introduced by the Cabinet of Ministers on the condemnation of the communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes, banned their propaganda and symbolism.

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