20.6.2005 19:14 MSK Russian monuments desecrated in Western Ukraine UKRAINE, Lvov. There have been several attacks on Russian Cultural Centre in Lvov since the beginning of the year. Recently vandals have smashed up poet Alexander Pushkin’s bust on the fa?ade of the building and broke windows, the Centre’s administration told PRIMA-News correspondent on 17 June.
Centre’s managers said that Ukrainian ultra-nationalists continue to smash up window glass, throw Molotov cocktails in the windows, fire air guns and graffiti the walls with insults aimed against Russian people. Russian Foreign Ministry voiced repeated protests but Ukrainian security forces failed to arrest perpetrators.
In the city of Lvov, a street named after Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov has been renamed after late Chechen rebel leader Dzhokhar Doudayev and Ghertsen street that used to bear the name of the well-known Russian political writer has now been named after Ukrainian writer Oles Gonchar who in 1974 took part in persecutions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Translated by Olga Sharp PRIMA-News Agency [2005-06-17-Ukr-42] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/6/20/32679.html
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