The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted draft law 10361 in the second reading and in its entirety, which provides for the construction of the second stage of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide and the establishment of new management principles for the museum. This was reported by the Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Viatrovych.
Ukraine expects to receive over 400 million hryvnias from Canadian donors for the implementation of the project.
The museum will be managed by a Supervisory Board consisting of 12 members, including Ukrainian and international experts, scientists, and representatives of civil society organizations with experience in the field of national memory policy. An Expert Council will also be established, composed of Ukrainian and foreign specialists.
«Today we also voted for draft law 11271, which establishes a solemn ritual for the burial of heroes at the National Military Memorial Cemetery, including symbolic burials for those whose bodies could not be found and returned,»
emphasized Viatrovych. «We must respect the soldiers who laid down their lives for Ukraine, take care of the memory of Ukrainians who perished in the Holodomor-Genocide, every victim of Russian aggression and occupation. This is our duty not only to the fallen, but also to the living,» he stressed.
