The Kiev city council on Thursday approved the renaming of 26 streets, lanes and subway stations whose names were deemed “linked to Russia or its satellites,” Ukrainian media have reported. The Druzhby Narodov (Friendship of Peoples) station on the green line will now be Zverinetskaya, while Leo Tolstoy Square on the blue line will be Ukrainian Heroes Square. The Prospekt Pravdy (Truth Boulevard) station, which is under construction, has been renamed Varshavskaya, after Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Almost two dozen streets and lanes have also been included in the renaming spree. WWII Soviet super-spy Richard Sorge and legendary radio announcer Yuri Levitan have been scrubbed, along with Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov and Marshal Alexander Suvorov. Proletariat Street and Proletariat Lane are likewise no more. Krasnotkatskaya (Red Weavers) Street – referring to Kiev’s Darnitsky Silk Weaving factory – is being renamed after former British PM Winston Churchill. Orlovsky Lane,…
Orwell gets street in Kiev
