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Constitutional Court rules on renaming Dnipropetrovsk region to Sicheslavsk

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published April 3, 2019 at 11:48 am

Ukraine's constitutional court judges leave after the sitting in Kyiv on Jul. 31, 2015.

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The Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CC) has ruled on the issue of renaming Dnipropetrovsk region to Sicheslavsk region.

“By this conclusion, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine recognized the draft law on amending Article 133 of the Constitution of Ukraine (regarding the renaming of Dnipropetrovsk region) … to the relevant requirements of Articles 157 and 158 of the Constitution of Ukraine,” the CC’s liaison department said on April 3.