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KIEV, October 2nd. / TASS /. Unidentified attackers desecrated the monument to Prince Volodymyr the Great in Kyiv. This was reported by the news agency"Ukrainian News" .
"The unknown painted monument swastika employees of municipal services work at the scene, as well as the police.", - The report says.
September 26 monument vandals poured red paint.After that, the Metropolitan Police opened a criminal case under article "Hooliganism", which is punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to five years. The perpetrators have not been found.
Monument to Prince Volodymyr the Great in Kyiv was built on the banks of the Dnieper in the park Vladimir Hill in 1853 and is the oldest sculptural construction of the Ukrainian capital. In 2015, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree "On the commemoration of Prince Vladimir of Kiev Great - the founder of the medieval European state," Russia - Ukraine ". Thus, legally in the country was legalized the concept of the existence of the state," Russia - Ukraine ", based supposedly 1000 years ago Kiev grand Duke Vladimir.
It was first proposed by Ukrainian historian Michael Hrushevsky, but found no support in the scientific world.
The date of the adoption of Christianity in ancient Russia as a state religion is considered to be 988 - then, according to the chronicles, held a mass baptism of the inhabitants of Kiev and other cities, and then Prince Vladimir.
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