This week in history

May 25. 1811. The Feodosiya Museum of Antiquities, now Feodosiya Local History Museum, was founded.

1994. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Human Rights Party.

May 26. 1648. The Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Cossack Army defeated Polish troops near Korsun.

1920. The Ivan Mazepa government resigned in Vinnytsia and Supreme Otaman of the Direktoriya Semen Petliura appointed a new UNR government headed by Vyacheslav Prokopovych.

May 27. 1657. The Holy Roman Empire contracted an alliance with Rzeczpospolita, promising to render military assistance to Poland and mediate in its negotiations with Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

1821. The Mykolayiv Astronomy Observatory was founded.

May 28. 1920. The First issue of the Visti VUTsVK (News of the All-Ukrainian Executive Committee, now Holos Ukrayiny) was published.

1997. The heads of the governments of Ukraine and the Russian Federation signed a number of documents on the division and deployment of the Black Sea Navy.

May 29. 1917. Russian Minister of War Aleksandr Kerensky forbade holding the Second All-Ukrainian Military Congress.

1964. The biggest botanical garden in the USSR was opened in Kyiv.

May 30. 1876. Russian Tsar Alexander II signed the Ems Ukase prohibiting publishing and importing literature and holding theatrical presentations in the Ukrainian language.

1923. The Ukrainian History and Philology Society was founded in Prague.

May 31. 1989. The founding congress of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies took place in Naples.

1995. President Leonid Kuchma issued a decree on conducting April 28 a poll among Ukraine’s citizens on the issues of their trust to the President of Ukraine and Verkhovna Rada; on June 1 the decree was rejected by Verkhovna Rada.