On July 1, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, adopted a resolution to rename the frontline settlement of Novhorodske in Donetsk Oblast as New York. It was done not to troll Russia (at least not just for that), but to restore the settlement’s original historic name. This town, founded by German settlers, really was New York up to 1951.
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A worker walks on the territory of the Fenol plant in Novhorodske on Aug. 1, 2017.
