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Kyiv's December 2021: a renamed town and a dismissal
Summary
Two decisions in mid-December 2021 touched on place names and on the leadership of the Interior Ministry.
What did Ukrainian politics look like on 16 December 2021? The day followed two decisions taken in the preceding days, one by parliament and one concerning the Interior Ministry.
On 15 December 2021, the Verkhovna Rada renamed the town of Volodymyr-Volynskyi as Volodymyr. The change shortened the name of the town to a single word.
Two days earlier, on 13 December 2021, Oleksandr Hohilashvili was dismissed from his post as deputy minister of internal affairs. The dismissal came after a series of high-profile scandals.
Taken together, the two decisions show parliament handling a question of place names while the Interior Ministry removed one of its deputy ministers following public controversy. The renaming was a legislative act; the dismissal was a personnel decision.
