In Sloviansk, a city in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, council meetings have rarely been as turbulent as they were towards the end of last month. The reason was the decision by the mayor, Oleg Zontov, to move for a vote over the application of a law that had only just been passed by the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko. This "law on the condemnation of communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes", voted through by parliament on 9 April, prohibits all defence of Nazism and communism.
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Disassembling Lenin monument in Sloviansk on June 3.
