This week in history

November 22, 1655. Bohdan Khmelnytsky started negotiations with the Crimean Khan on his neutrality in the Cossacks’ war against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1901. A mass students’ demonstration took place in Kharkiv, protesting against harassing Maksim Gorky by the tsarist government.

November 23, 1708. The Orthodox Church pronounced an anathema against Ukraine’s Hetman Ivan Mazepa for his alleged betrayal of Tsar Peter I.

1990. A meeting of parliamentary delegations from Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia began in Minsk.

November 24, 1905. An uprising began on the Ochakiv cruiser and other Black Sea Navy ships in Sevastopol.

1905. Temporary print regulations were promulgated in Russia, authorizing the printing of periodicals in the languages of the Russian Empire nations and cancelling preliminary censorship.

November 25, 1917. The Ukrainian Central Rada passed a decision to issue its own money.

1995. The ministers of defence of Ukraine and Russia signed a number of documents in Sochi including the agreement On Cooperation in the Military Sphere.

November 26. Day of Memory of the Victims of the Manmade Famine and Political Repression.

1917. An organizing congress (Kurultai) of the Crimean Tatars took place, putting forward a slogan, The Crimea for the Crimeans.

1944. The First Congress of Delegates from People’s Committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine approved a manifesto On the Reunification of Transcarpathian Ukraine with Soviet Ukraine.

November 27. 1648. Polish King Jan II Kazimierz issued a universal guaranteeing Cossack rights.

November 28. 1918. The Provisional Workers and Peasants Government of Ukraine was created, issuing a manifesto On Overthrowing Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky and Establishing Soviet Power in Ukraine.

1994. A meeting of the Constitutional Committee was held, meaning the renewing of the constitutional process in Ukraine.