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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

17 February, 2009 - 00:00

Feb. 17 1919: The Directory approves a declaration to the governments of the Entente and the US, requesting assistance in the struggle against the Bolsheviks.

1943: The third conference of the leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (B) (Bandera faction) begins, recognizing the necessity of a struggle against the USSR and Nazi Germany and categorically condemning any collaboration with the Nazis.

Feb. 18 1966: The first 17-volume Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia is published.

1972: The Council of Ministers of the USSR adopts a resolution on the organization of Symferopil State University.

Feb. 19 1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts the Tryzub (Trident) as the Small National Emblem of Ukraine, regarding it as the main element of the Great National Emblem.

2002: When the first Angel helicopter comes off the assembly line, Ukraine becomes the world’s sixth independent manufacturer of this type of aircraft.

Feb. 20 1919: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree establishing civil marriage procedures and the institution of civil registries.

1944: Kyiv hosts the fourth “antifascist” rally, which adopts a message to the Ukrainian people, calling for every effort to combat the German occupiers.

Feb. 21 1919: The first issue of the newspaper Komunar (today: Vechirnii Kyiv) comes off the presses in Kyiv.

1996: Ukraine and the United States sign an agreement on commercial satellite launches during the Ukrainian president’s working visit to Washington.

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