This week in history

November 19: 1989. Poets Vasyl Stus, Yury Lytvyn, and 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: 1655. Bohdan Khmelnytsky started negotiations with the Crimean Khan on his neutrality in the Cossacks’ war against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1901. A mass demonstration of Kharkiv students protesting against the tsarist government’s persecution of Maksim Gorky took place.

November 23. Day of Memory of the Victims of the Manmade Famine and Political Repression.

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.

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

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