Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 22 – Moscow must restore the Russian names of cities, villages and streets in what is now Ukraine to show Russians and the West that the Russians are not going to give up on their plans to put an end to Ukraine, something he describes as a Western “project” directed against Russia, Yury Bondarenko says.
The president of the Return Foundation, which has long sought to restore Russian names in place of Soviet ones within the Russian Federation, argues that such changes are the best means of propagandizing Moscow’s commitment (mk.ru/politics/2025/11/22/ekaterinoslav-vmesto-dnipra-politolog-obyasnil-kakim-ukrainskim-gorodam-neobkhodimo-vernut-istoricheskie-imena.html).
What Bondarenko does not say but what must be acknowledged by all people of good will is that such name changes are acts of genocide because they are intended to destroy the people who have insisted on the earlier changes and thus part of Putin’s broader approach to the Ukrainians and other non-Russians.
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