Given the revision of the approach to assessing national memory policy and its consideration as a component of national security, an important task for the state is to rethink approaches to shaping the public space of Ukrainian cities. This requires analyzing the entire existing structure of governing bodies, the legislative framework, and specific cases related to the symbols of Russian imperial policy. This is especially true in cities that are the subject of increased attention from Russia. In particular, in Odesa, the example of the monument to Catherine II is one of the most striking in highlighting the problematic issues of Ukraine's approach to public administration in the field of national memory policy. While studying the issues of public administration in the field of national memory in Ukraine on the example of the monument to Catherine II in Odesa, the author gained access to archival documents of local self-government bodies, studied open and news data, as well as existing case law and legislation of Ukraine, current and past, which allows systematizing the identified shortcomings and suggesting ways to address them at the legislative level.
A. Kartashov (Wed,) studied this question.