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Kyiv in November 2018: renaming and a rally attacked
Summary
A look back at two political and civic stories in Ukraine in the days around 22 November 2018.
What was Ukraine's political agenda in the days leading up to 22 November 2018? Two reports from the preceding days point to a country dealing with both its map and its public spaces.
On 20 November 2018, the Verkhovna Rada decided to rename Kirovohrad Oblast as Kropyvnytskyi Oblast. The legislature sent the bill to the Constitutional Court, so the process had not been completed when 22 November arrived.
Two days earlier, on 18 November 2018, a planned transgender rights rally in Kyiv was attacked by far-right radicals. The report described an attack on a rally that had been planned in advance.
The two events were unrelated, and the reports do not link them. Together they show what was in the news in Ukraine in the days before 22 November 2018: a parliamentary decision on a regional name awaiting review by the Constitutional Court, and an assault on a rally in the capital.
