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"Reagan until his last days was a staunch defender of the independence of Ukraine and other countries affected by the communist system," reads a statement accompanying the petition.

The authors proposed to put a monument at the intersection of Lypska Street and Instytutska Street, at the site of a demolished monument to the first secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Ukraine, Dmytro Manuilskyi.

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A corresponding e-petition on the website of the Kyiv City State Administration has already gathered more than a thousand signatures of the 10,000 required for its consideration by the Kyiv City State Administration.