According to him, this decision was supported by the deputy majority of the local village council.
There were four variants of the new name of the settlement to choose from: Bessarabskoe, Budzhatskoe, Katlabuzhskoe and Shikirli-Kitai.
On November 30, the decision to dismantle the monuments to Catherine II and commander Alexander Suvorov was made in Odessa.
On November 17, a monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was dismantled in Chernivtsi.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev commented on the dismantling of monuments to Pushkin and Suvorov in Ukraine with a quote from the writer Mikhail Bulgakov.