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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This week in history

5 February, 2002 - 00:00

February 5: 1919. The last UNR combat force, the Sichovi Striltsi (Sich Sharpshooters), abandoned Kyiv.

1977. Helsinki Group members Mykola Rudenko and Oleksa Tykhy were arrested.

February 6: 1929. The All-Ukrainian Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars passed a decision on copyrights.

1958. The Ukrainian SSR Union of Cinematographers was created.

February 7: 1919. By a decree of the Council of People’s Commissars the workers’ and peasants’ militia was created.

1995. A treaty was signed in Kyiv On Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership Between Ukraine and Russia.

February 8: 1918. The UNR and Austria-Hungary signed a secret treaty in Brest-Litovsk on creating a separate Ukrainian crown land in Halychyna and Bukovyna as a part of Austria-Hungary.

1994. Documents were signed in Brussels connected with Ukraine’s participation in the NATO Partnership for Peace program.

February 9: 1648. Bohdan Khmelnytsky was elected Ukrainian hetman.

1918. The Ukrainian Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, according to which Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria recognized Ukraine as an independent state.

February 10: 1995. During a test flight a unique experimental An- 70 plane crashed.

February 11: 1963. A conference on culture and Ukrainian language began in Kyiv, whose participants demanded to give Ukrainian language a state status.

1989. The founding conference of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society (later renamed the All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society) was held.

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