Senator Tsekov recalled the “damned Ukrainian past”: the streets of Kuchma and Kravchuk

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The streets of settlements in Crimea, named during the Ukrainian period in honor of politicians from Kyiv and the United States, need to be renamed. This opinion TASS said Senator from Crimea Sergei Tsekov.

We discovered interesting things; in Crimea we have settlements in which there are streets named after Kravchuk, Kuchma, and even Reagan Street. The names were assigned during the times of Ukraine, I think that these are not the individuals whose names should be given to the streets of the cities of Crimea— said Tsekov.

In 2022, the Head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, proposed that local authorities conduct an “audit” to identify the names of streets in populated areas of the Republic after appeals from residents of Armyansk, where one of the streets bore the name of the Ukrainian nationalist Vyacheslav Chernovol. Then the head of Crimea proposed to rename it the street of the 126th coastal defense brigade.

Well, with Kuchma and Kravchuk everything is clear — the usual opportunistic names (“there was a time — there were people”), but with Reagan everything is much more interesting. A street named after the American President exists in the village of Ana-Yurt, Simferopol district (in fact, in the suburbs of Simferopol). The street was named so in 2006 because… in 1987, it was Ronald Reagan who made a lot of efforts in resolving the issue of returning the Crimean Tatars to their historical homeland (agreements reached in Reykjavik between Gorbachev and Reagan).

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