Protest against possible cancellation decommunization law in Ukraine

A placard reading 'Back to the USSR?' hangs on a fence of the Constitutional Court during a rally of activists against possible cancellation decommunization law near the Constitutional Court, in Kiev, Ukraine, on 16 July 2019. The Ukrainian Constitutional Court considers the case on the constitutionality of the laws on de-communization. 46 Ukrainian lawmakers, mostly supporters of former Russia-backed President Viktor Yanukovych, addressed the court to repeal the laws "On the cleansing of power" and "On condemnation of the communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of their symbols. On April 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a law introduced by the Cabinet of Ministers on the condemnation of the communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes, banned their propaganda and symbolism.