This week in history

June 12: 1936. A new draft USSR Constitution was published for a nationwide discussion.

1943. The Carpathian joint raid of Soviet partisan detachments led by Semen Kovpak began.

June 13: 1988. The Supreme Court of the USSR rehabilitated those sentenced in course of the so-called Union of Marxists-Leninists’ case in the 1930s for lack of proof.

1996. President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine declared the removal of strategic nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia complete.

June 14: 1941. TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) made public a statement that all rumors on the possibility of war between the USSR and Germany were provocations.

1996: The All-Ukrainian Oles Honchar Foundation for Restoring Outstanding Monuments of the Historical and Cultural Legacy was founded by order of the President of Ukraine.

June 15: 1775. A Russian army headed by General Tekely destroyed the Zaporozhzhian (Pidpilnenska) Sich.

1940. The Red Army entered Lithuania. Estonia and Latvia followed on June 17 as provided for by a secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop (Hitler-Stalin) Pact.

June 16: 1934. The First Congress of Ukrainian Writers began in Kharkiv, creating the Writers’ Union of Ukraine and approving its statute.

1990. The founding congress of the Ukrainian National Democratic Party began.

June 17: 1946. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the USSR worked out a detailed plan for “maximal defeat of the OUN underground and its armed units.”

1993. An agreement and communiquО were signed on immediate forming Naval Forces of Ukraine and Russia on the base of the Black Sea Fleet on a 50:50 basis.

June 18: 1939. The Taras Shevchenko Memorial Museum and a monument on the poet’s grave were unveiled in Kaniv.

1993. The Hetman Capital History and Culture Preserve was created in the town of Baturyn.