Is it true that the street in Kyiv was renamed Victoria Nuland?

In March 2024, the news appeared that the name of the American diplomat would be immortalized on the map of the Ukrainian capital. We checked whether these messages are true.

According to publications in the media and social networks, the mayor of Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko signed a decree on the assignment of a street in the Darnitsky district, previously named after Tchaikovsky, the name of Victoria Nuland - deputy Secretary of State of the United States, whose ambulance retired It became known March 5. In the winter of 2013, Nuland, at that time assistant to the Secretary of State for European and Eurasia, appeared On the Euromaidan, talked with the protesters, treated them with sandwiches and cookies, which gave rise to a meme "The cookies of the State Department". Messages about renaming were accompanied by a photograph of the corresponding decree.

This news was devoted to the publication on their social networks former Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov And the writer Zakhar Prilepin, They told about her the television channel "360 °" Radio Sputnik, "Arguments and facts","Tomorrow.ru","Ukraine.ru","New time"As well as Telegram channels"Dmitry Nicotin"(300,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Ne. Sahar (259,000), Alien Sales (256,000), "Observer"(170 000),"Uncle Glory"(170 000) and others.

In the framework of the deerification of toponyms, the Ukrainian authorities in the past two years often give the streets the names in honor of foreign politicians, including modern Western ones. So, during this time in the country appeared Several streets of Boris Johnson, the former British Prime Minister, who was one of the first among European leaders to provide full-scale military assistance to Kyiv. Renations are adopted on renaming within the framework of adopted in 2023 law “On the condemnation and prohibition of propaganda of Russian imperial policy in Ukraine and the decolonization of toponymy”, according to which Russian and Soviet geographical names should disappear in a short time in the country. particular "Markers of the superiority of Russian culture." The surname of the composer Peter Tchaikovsky, according to the conclusion of the expert commission of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, is included in this category, therefore, in the near future, the National Music Academy of Ukraine located in the same Kyiv, apparently, Rename.

The US State Department’s message about the ambulance Nuland, which appeared on March 5, caused a wide response In Ukrainian mass media-the activities of the diplomat for many years were directly related to Ukraine, and completely recently She came to Kyiv. However, the news about the renaming of the street in honor of Nuland in the center of the Ukrainian capital, oddly enough, did not appear in local media.

Consider in more detail the document, the photograph of which is distributed in the media. Indeed, all decisions made by the Kyiv city Rada these days, Relate to the II session of the second convocation.

However, the latter at the time of writing was a parsing Accepted On February 29, there are no more recent solutions on the official website of the Kyiv city Rada. Also, there are no such messages in the section "Renaming streets»On the official portal of Kyiv.

The decision number on the document, which became the basis of viral publications, is also noteworthy - 156/7281. The decisions of the Kyiv city of Rada are numbered in chronological order, and both parts of the number in the latest documents exceed 7800: for example, 7806/7847. IN database There is no decision on the website of this authority with number 156/7281, but in any case it could not appear in 2024.

Both Kyiv City Rada and the media previously published repeatedly other Solutions On renaming the streets in the Ukrainian capital. These documents are easy to use as a template to create a fake.

“Verified” turned to Kyiv City Rada for comment, but at the time of publication, she did not receive a analysis of the response.

According to TGSTAT, the first news in Telegram began to spread the pro -Russian channel "Shaman Rahu"(3,500 views), where the corresponding entry appeared on March 6 at 14:40 Moscow time. This channel has repeatedly appeared in the analysis of “verified” as the source of incorrect information - for example, in November 2023 there Placed The news similar in the subject that in Kyiv, at the site of the monument to Pushkin, they are going to erect a monument to US President Joe Biden. The first large source of message distribution was the publication of the channel Nina Vatt (38,000 views, 262 reposts), published two minutes later. This channel is also earlier Reported fakes.

Photo on the cover: screenshot from social networks / Wikimedia Commons

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