This week in history

March 5: 1918. The Small Rada of the UNR passed the law On the Administrative Status of Kyiv.

1992. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the law On the Representative of the President of Ukraine.

March 6: 1939. A monument to Taras Shevchenko was unveiled in Kyiv.

1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the National Olympic Committee.

March 7: 1573. The print shop considered Ukraine’s first was created in Lviv, where Ivan Fedorov printed The Apostle.

1921. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR approved the decree On Organizing Workers’ Faculties.

March 8. International Women’s Day.

1946. The Council of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, inspired by the authorities, began in Lviv, canceling its union with Rome and subordinating itself to the Russian Orthodox Church.

March 9: 1930. The trial of a group of Ukrainian intelligentsia, accused of creating the fictional Union for the Liberation of Ukraine underground counterrevolutionary organization, began in Kyiv.

1930. Nasha Zemlia [Our Land] weekly newspaper, legal organ of the Communist Party of the Western Ukraine, was first published in Lviv.

March 10: 1992. Ukraine was accepted into the North Atlantic Cooperation Council in Brussels.

1995. The first closed auction of 1995 internal state loan obligations was held at the National Bank of Ukraine.

March 11: 1995. The first certificates auction was held in Kyiv.

1997. The presidents of Ukraine and Moldova signed a declaration On Creating a Customs Union in Chisinau.