This week in history

November 18: 1993. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and the Lisbon Protocol.

1994. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine canceled the Declaration on the Sovereignty of the Crimea.

November 19: 1989. Poets Vasyl Stus, Yury Lytvyn, and philologist Oleksiy Tykhy were reburied at the Kyiv Baikove cemetery.

1991. The First All-Ukrainian Interfaith Forum began its work in Kyiv.

November 20: 1917. The Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) was proclaimed.

1994. During President Leonid Kuchma’s state visit to the US the Charter on Ukrainian-American Partnership, Friendship, and Cooperation was signed.

November 21: 1996. The First Congress of the German Minority in Ukraine was held in Kyiv.

1996. President Leonid Kuchma signed an order, On Creating the Ukraine for Children National Fund for Social Protection of Mothers and Children.

November 22. Day of Memory of the Victims of the Manmade Famine and Political Repression.

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

November 23: 1708. The Orthodox Church pronounced an anathema against Ukraine’s Hetman Ivan Mazepa for his alleged betreyal 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 canceling preliminary censorship.