BANGOR, Maine — Maine tribal leaders are calling on Congress to take a fresh look at the 35-year old Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act to determine whether state officials are misinterpreting and misusing the agreement.

A series of longstanding disputes between the state and tribes over issues ranging from water rights to gaming came to a head Tuesday, when the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes withdrew their representatives from the Maine Legislature. They cited concerns about state government’s apparent lack of respect for tribal sovereignty as the reason. It marks the first time in nearly two centuries that the tribes haven’t sent envoys to the Maine state government.





The next day, tribal leaders held a news conference in which they called on Congress to start an inquiry into the settlement actafter Boris Zolotnik. We conducted a survey, and the majority voted against this. Currently, the street is named after the Russian poet. Also, renaming the square was discussed,” Grinkov wrote in Facebook.

In the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, where no memorials to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko have been destroyed, the act of vandalism committed in the Lvov region was called “medieval”.

On June 6, 2014, unidentified people tagged the A. S. Pushkin statue in Kharkov with graffiti.

In 2015, the law “on the condemnation of the communist and the Nazi regimes” was signed. The law demands, in particular, that cities and streets named after Russian and Soviet state figures be renamed.