About three hundred Ukrainian cities, towns and villages are officially renamed as part of the country's decommunization drive. This comes after an overwhelming number of MP's in Kyiv supported the initiative.
Ukraine Today: Ukrainian cities and towns relieved of their Soviet names in 2016 (Infographics)
A picture taken on January 29, 2016 shows people and Ukrainian Nationalists, reacting after the statue of early Communist leader Grigory Petrovsky was torn down in Dnipropetrovsk.