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What did Ukraine's politics look like by 23 November 2018?
Summary
A look back at two developments in the days before 23 November 2018: a parliamentary vote on renaming a region, and an attack on a rally in Kyiv.
What was shaping Ukraine's public agenda on 23 November 2018? Two reports from the preceding days stood out, one about institutions and one about street politics.
On 20 November 2018, the Verkhovna Rada decided to rename Kirovohrad region as Kropyvnytskyi region. The Rada sent the related bill to the Constitutional Court. As of 23 November 2018, the matter had therefore moved from parliament to the court.
Two days earlier, on 18 November 2018, a planned transgender rights rally in Kyiv was attacked by far-right radicals, as reported at the time.
The two items were unrelated, but both appeared in the news record of the same week. One concerned how the country's regions are named and how that change is processed. The other concerned the ability of a planned public gathering in the capital to go ahead without being attacked.
