[Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On 2015-05-20 14:28, Pierre-Selim wrote:
> 2015-05-20 14:22 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>:
> 
>> On 2015-05-20 14:11, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all;
>>> 
>>> In the past years, monuments related to communism in Ukraine have
>>> been
>>> damaged or destroyed. During Euromaidan protests that was
>>> increased,
>>> with many examples of destroyed sculptures.[1]
>>> 
>>> I have heard in the news that many more monuments are going to be
>>> removed soon by law. I know that it is a controversial topic in
>>> Ukraine, but probably we won't be able to take pictures of these
>>> monuments anymore.
>>> 
>>> Is anyone interested on this topic?
>> 
>> With a very few exceptions, pictures of these monuments can not be
>> uploaded on Commons due to the lack of freedom of panorama in
>> Ukraine. Unfortunately, most of the Ukrainin users do not understand
>> the concept of freedom of panorama and upload them anyway. In such
>> cases, the files must be nominated for deletion.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Yaroslav
> 
> Is there an exemption on the Ukrainian speaking Wikipedia (such as
> Non-free content on english Wikipedia or modern building on french
> Wikipedia) ?
> 

Yes, I think they allow fair use under certain conditions.

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D1%97_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F

Cheers
Yaroslav