This week in history

November 12: 1772. The Crimea was proclaimed independent from the Ottoman Empire.

1992. The kupon-karbovanets was put into circulation in Ukraine.

November 13: 1708. Russian troops under Aleksandr Menshikov captured Baturyn, the Hetman’s capital, slaughtering the inhabitants.

1918. The Ukrainian National Rada approved a provisional basic law On State Sovereignty of the Ukrainian Lands in the former Austro- Hungarian Monarchy. The new state took the name of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic.

November 14: 1918. The law On Founding the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences was issued, with Volodymyr Vernadsky elected its president.

1939. A special Verkhovna Rada session passed a law On Including West Ukraine into USSR and Its Reunification with the Ukrainian SSR.

November 15: 1918. An uprising began against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky headed by the Dyrektoriya.

1919. The UNR State Council with the participation of Dyrektoriya members and UNR government gave Supreme Otaman Symon Petliura “the supreme command over the Republic’s affairs.”

November 16: 1994. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a law On Ukraine’s Joining the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons of July 1, 1968.

November 17: 1648. Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s embassy left to Semyhrad Prince George I Rakoczy with a proposal to start a campaign against Poland and conquer the Polish crown.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

November 18: 1932. Chairman of the USSR Soviet of People’s Commissars Vyacheslav Molotov forced through the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine a decree that collective and individual farmers “maliciously” failing to deliver bread to the state could be “fined” by the seizure of other foodstuffs.

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