This week in history

March 23. 1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the State Sovereignty of Ukraine all-Ukrainian political union.

1994. A Charter on Partnership and Cooperation was signed in Brussels between Ukraine and the European Union.

March 24. 1935. A monument to Taras Shevchenko by sculptor Matviy Manizer was unveiled in Kharkiv.

1980. The Ukrainian Catholic Church Synod opened in Rome, electing Bishop Myroslav Liubachivsky successor to Cardinal Yosyp Slipy as Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

March 25. 1993. The Central Interpol Bureau of Ukraine was founded. 1994. Ukraine and Russia signed an agreement On Cultural Cooperation for a ten-year period.

March 26. 1919. The Supreme Council of National Economy of the Russian Soviet Federative Republic and the Council of National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR signed an agreement On Carrying Out a Single Economic Policy.

1944. The troops of the Third Ukrainian Front started the Odesa offensive operation, taking Odesa and Mykolayiv oblasts and much of Moldova.

March 27. 1943. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR approved a decision On Creating the Shevchenko Literary and Arts Museum.

1993. The Kyiv Pectoral annual award was first presented in Kyiv.

March 28. 1708. Tsar Peter I ordered that the secular print replace the Church Slavonic in Muscovy.

1821. The Southern Society of the Decembrists was created in Tulchyn.

March 29. 1944. During the Proskurivka-Chernivtsy operation troops of the First Ukrainian Front took Chernivtsi from the Germans.

1993. The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs took place in Kyiv.