https://images.unian.net/pb/002/thumb_files/h_190/205864.jpg Bykovnya Deputy Kyiv Mayor - Secretary of Kyiv Council Oles Dovgyi, right, and lawmaker from the OU – PSD Ivan Plushch, in the background, laying flowers to the Memorial Cross at the territory of “Bykovnyansk graves” national reserve in Kyiv, on Sunday, May 17, 2009. The President of Ukraine took part in the measures of honoring the memory of political repressions victims at the territory of “Bykovnyansk graves” national reserve on Day of memory of victims of the political repressions. The President wreathed flowers to the monument of Political Prisoner at the entrance to the reserve and to the Memorable Cross. The head of the state also took part in mournful procession to the Memorable Cross and delivered a speech. A service for the dead with participation of priesthood of the Ukrainian churches took place within the frameworks of the measures. At the end of the official part of the measure the participants of the measure honoured the memory of perished compatriots by a minute of silence within the frameworks of the measure. The President also observed a historical- documental exhibition “Broken fortunes: communist terror in Ukraine in 1920-1950” Photo by Nikolay Lazarenko/POOL/UNIAN

Laying-on of flowers to Memorable Cross

Deputy Kyiv Mayor - Secretary of Kyiv Council Oles Dovgyi, right, and lawmaker from the OU – PSD Ivan Plushch, in the background, laying flowers to the Memorial Cross at the territory of “Bykovnyansk graves” national reserve in Kyiv, on Sunday, May 17, 2009. The President of Ukraine took part in the measures of honoring the memory of political repressions victims at the territory of “Bykovnyansk graves” national reserve on Day of memory of victims of the political repressions. The President wreathed flowers to the monument of Political Prisoner at the entrance to the reserve and to the Memorable Cross. The head of the state also took part in mournful procession to the Memorable Cross and delivered a speech. A service for the dead with participation of priesthood of the Ukrainian churches took place within the frameworks of the measures. At the end of the official part of the measure the participants of the measure honoured the memory of perished compatriots by a minute of silence within the frameworks of the measure. The President also observed a historical- documental exhibition “Broken fortunes: communist terror in Ukraine in 1920-1950” Photo by Nikolay Lazarenko/POOL/UNIAN

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