This week in history
June 3: 1906. The Ukrayinsky visnyk [Ukrainian Courier] magazine, organ of the Ukrainian parliamentary community and State Duma began publication in St. Petersburg.
June 4: 1630. A battle took place at Pereyaslav between Taras Triasylo’s insurgents and Polish szlachta army.
1997. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the law, On the State Property Fund of Ukraine.
June 5: 1771. An imperial ukase was issued giving permission to a thousand Ukrainian Cossacks to settle down near Azov.
1990. The First Church Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) started its work in Kyiv.
June 6: 1708. Ukraine’s Hetman Ivan Mazepa and Swedish King Carl XII signed a secret treaty on joint action against Russian Tsar Peter 1.
1992. The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Lemkos was held in Ternopil.
June 7: 1949. The House of Technology was opened in Kyiv.
1993. The International Committee for Economic Reforms and Cooperation, a non-governmental organization, was created in Kyiv to further involving private foreign capital.
June 8: 1993. The most massive nationwide miners’ strike started in Ukraine, causing a decrease in coal production and decline in coal mining.
1995. President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the order On Appointing Yevhen Marchuk Prime Minister of Ukraine.
June 9: 1847. Russian Tsar Nicholas I approved the sentence sending Taras Shevchenko to the army and forbidding him to write and paint.
1995. The presidents of Ukraine and the Russian Federation signed an agreement in Sochi On the Separate Deployment of the Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and Ukraine’s Naval Forces and also on division of the Black Sea Fleet’s property.
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