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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This day in history

17 May, 2011 - 00:00

1919: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree transferring the property of all monasteries, convents, churches, and other religious organizations to the People’s Commissariat [Ministry] of Social Protection.

1924: Sich Ukrainian Publishers is founded in Prague.

1934: The first issue of the Ukrainian newspaper Nash klych comes off the presses in Argentina.

1935: The Special Board of the NKVD in Moscow sentences Yurii Kotsiubynsky to five years of exile in western Siberia, in retaliation for his involvement in a “Trotskyite counterrevolutionary organization.”

1936: Lwow (now Lviv) hosts an Antifascist Cultural Congress.

1970: Ukraine’s largest Palace of Culture ‘Ukraine’ is launched in Kyiv (currently known as the Ukraine National Palace).

1990: The founding meeting of the Majoronis Lithuanian Cultural Society is held in Kyiv.

1997: Ukraine’s first Antarctic expedition is accomplished.

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