OREANDA-NEWS  Vladimir Zelensky's wife, Elena, in her Telegram channel demanded that Russian artists be returned to Ukraine.

"It is important to return to Ukraine the artists that Russia has appropriated," she says.

According to her, in museums in the West, various Russian and Soviet artists are already called Ukrainian.

On September 19, the Verkhovna Rada supported the renaming of more than three hundred settlements whose names are associated with Russia, Ukrainian parliamentarian Yaroslav Zheleznyak said. It was decided to keep the names for Yuzhny, Yuzhnoukrainsky, Pavlograd, Sinelnikov and Pervomaisk.

Recently, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to struggle not only with Soviet history, but also with everything related to Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the Ukrainian authorities had been pursuing a course of aggressive de-russification and forced assimilation for many years.