{"id":11535,"date":"2023-08-15T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2023-08-15T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:42:24","slug":"decolonization-of-ukrainian-history-and-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/monitoring\/decolonization-of-ukrainian-history-and-cultural-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonization of Ukrainian history and cultural heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Cabinet resolution <\/b><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kmu.gov.ua\/npas\/pro-vnesennia-zmin-do-deiakykh-postanov-kabinetu-ministriv-ukrainy-shchodo-diialnosti-deiakykh-t280723?fbclid=IwAR0Ht_CPCgObbSiIm9YyrN4kzRMlUL3Xcw8IaLi2AJpSiSGPTjJ7xDs16Fk\"><b>#778<\/b><\/a><b> of July 28, 2023<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Decision-maker: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Cabinet of Ministers<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Status<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in effect since July 28, 2023<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Who is affected: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">residents of Ukraine, the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Summary of the resolution:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">grants the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine the power to enforce state regulations on affirming Ukrainian national and civic identity<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">entrusts the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory with the following powers:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to establish the National Commission for Rehabilitation and provide organizational, technical, and financial means necessary for its work<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to collect, aggregate, and publish information about the crimes (repressive measures) of Russian imperial policy against the Ukrainian people<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to issue explanations and recommendations on the implementation of the following laws:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:2160,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Wingdings&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[9642],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0a7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On the Condemnation and Prohibition of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/zakon.rada.gov.ua\/laws\/show\/3005-20#Text\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Propaganda<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:2160,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Wingdings&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[9642],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0a7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Rehabilitation of the Victims of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/zakon.rada.gov.ua\/laws\/show\/962-12\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Repressions<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the Communist Totalitarian Regime 1917-1991<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to create an expert commission that will issue expert conclusions on issues related to the implementation of the Law of Ukraine On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to provide recommendations on whether an object of cultural heritage is a symbol of the communist totalitarian regime or Russian imperial policy<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to issue recommendations on the removal of an object of cultural heritage from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine if it is a symbol of the communist totalitarian regime or a symbol of Russian imperial policy<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to collect, aggregate, and publish information about the facts and circumstances of the repressions of the communist totalitarian regime 1917-1991, about repressed persons and individuals who suffered from the repressions of the communist totalitarian regime 1917-1991.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">grants the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine the following powers:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to issue conclusions on whether an object of cultural heritage is a symbol of the communist totalitarian regime or the Russian imperial policy<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to issue expert decisions on whether to remove from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine an object, which is a symbol of the communist totalitarian, a symbol of Russian imperial policy, or contains such symbols<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to make decisions on granting consent for dismantling (removal) of certain parts of such objects of cultural heritage<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to make decisions to retain the object, which is a symbol of the communist totalitarian regime or Russian imperial policy but has exceptional artistic value, in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is right: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the resolution launches the implementation of the policy on decolonization of Ukrainian history and culture.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Background information<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on March 21, 2023, the Verkhovna Rada <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/zakon.rada.gov.ua\/laws\/show\/3005-20#Text\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">adopted<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the law On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy, which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Uc3qqDPdp7Q\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">established a legal framework<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> for the process of decolonization in Ukraine. It was initiated after the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet resolution #778 of July 28, 2023\u00a0 Decision-maker: the Cabinet of Ministers\u00a0 Status: in effect since July 28, 2023\u00a0 Who is affected: residents of Ukraine, the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy\u00a0 Summary of the resolution:\u00a0 grants the State Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"level":[],"area":[],"coauthors":[1023],"class_list":["post-11535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monitoring"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11536,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions\/11536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}