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What did Kyiv's politics produce by 16 December 2021?
Summary
A look back at two decisions from the days before 16 December 2021: a city renamed by parliament and a deputy interior minister dismissed.
What had Ukraine's political system delivered by 16 December 2021? The days leading up to that date brought two separate decisions, one symbolic and one personnel-related.
On 15 December 2021, the Verkhovna Rada renamed the city of Volodymyr-Volynskyi as Volodymyr. The change was a parliamentary decision on the name of a single city, taken the day before the covered date.
Two days earlier, on 13 December 2021, Oleksandr Hohilashvili was dismissed as a deputy minister of internal affairs. The dismissal came after a series of high-profile scandals.
The two items are unrelated in subject. Taken together, they show parliament acting on a naming question while the interior ministry lost one of its deputy ministers. The reports from those days do not link the decisions, and they do not say what followed from either one.
