This week in history

September 24: 1993. The treaty On Creating the CIS Economic Union was signed, and Ukraine stated its readiness to become an associate member.

1993. The Ministry of Justice registered the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

September 25: 1914. The first battle of Semeniuk’s sotnia of the Ukrainian sichovy striltsy [Sich Sharpshooters] took place.

1986. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet awarded titles of Hero of the Soviet Union to Viktor Kybenko and Volodymyr Pravyk (posthumously) and Leonid Teliatnykov for their brave, heroic, and selfless actions in cleaning up the Chornobyl disaster.

September 26: 1991. The Kyiv Pedagogical Institute was returned the name of Mykhailo Drahomanov.

1995. Ukraine joined the Council of Europe.

September 27: 1906. The first issue of Rada Ukrainian daily newspaper was published in Kyiv.

1993. The President of Ukraine issued an order On Creating a Coordination Committee to Implement Market Reforms and Combat Economic Crisis.

September 28: 1939. The treaty On Friendship and Borders between the Soviet Union and Germany was signed in Moscow, establishing the Ukrainian SSR’s western border along the rivers Western Buh and Narev.

September 29: 1920. An armistice was signed between Makhno and the Soviet government.

1941. The Nazis began the mass executions of Jews in Babyn Yar in Kyiv; over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians were killed there.

September 30: 1992. The Ministry of Justice registered the Association of Researchers of the Ukrainian Manmade Famine Genocide of 1932-1933.