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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

29 September, 2011 - 00:00

1917: The Small Rada in Kyiv adopts a declaration of the General Secretariat, confirming Ukrainian statehood and outlining the nation-state-building guidelines.

1920: Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army and the Soviet Ukrainian government agree on a truce.

1926: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsVK) and the Soviet of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopt a decree making the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra [Cave Monastery] a government-protected historical and cultural preserve.

1941: In Nazi-occupied Kyiv, massacres against peaceful civilians begin, resulting in over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, and Gypsies shot down the Babyn Yar ravine.

1955: Battleship  Novorossiysk explodes and sinks at Sevastopol under circumstances still to be ascertained.

1991: Kyiv hosts the constituent convention of the Green Party of Ukraine.

1997: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers a political association to become known as the Ukrainian National Assembly.

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