Halya Coynash: ‘Decommunization’ in Ukraine carried out using communist methods
It is just over a year since extremely controversial 'decommunization' laws came into force in Ukraine and 6 months since the only one of them presented for assessment received a hammering from the Council of Europe's Venice Commission. Promised amendments have yet to be adopted, and the first anniversary was marked by the initiating of a criminal investigation over attempts by veterans to unfurl a red flag on Victory Day. The laws also came in for some hard-hitting criticism from Georgiy Kasyanov, a Ukrainian historian who recently said in an Ukrainska Pravda interview that one political group is foisting a specific narrative without public consensus.