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The City Council of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, announced last week that Minsk Avenue been renamed Lithuania Avenue. In total, more than 40 streets, squares, boulevards, and avenues with names related to Russia and Belarus have been renamed, according to the council’s website. Deputy Kyiv Mayor Volodymyr Bondarenko said it was necessary to remove hostile names from the city map. A total of 279 objects with names related to Russia and Belarus have been identified in Kyiv, according to Bondarenko. A decision on renaming the remaining sites would be taken by the end of September, he added.
