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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 

6 July, 1999 - 00:00

July 6, 1927:   All-Ukraine Central Executive Committee
passes a resolution securing the equality of all languages and assistance
in the development of Ukrainian culture.

July 6, 1987:   Crimean Tatars stage a demonstration
on Red Square in Moscow.

July 7:   St. John the Baptist Day.

July 7, 1659:   Cossack troops led by Ivan Vyhovsky
defeat the Russians at Konotop.

July 7, 1949:   the Nazi Wehrmacht besieges Kyiv.

July 8, 1709:   Muscovite troops led by Tsar Peter
I defeat Swedish King Charles XII and Ukrainian Hetman Mazepa in the Battle
of Poltava.

July 8, 1997:   NATO and Ukraine sign a special partnership
Charter in Madrid.

July 9, 1783:   Russia's Military Board [War Ministry]
issues an edict reorganizing Cossack regiments as regular regiments of
the Russian Army.

July 9, 1961:   a statue of Taras Shevchenko is unveiled
in Winnipeg.

July 10, 1968:   Maksym Rylsky Literary-Memorial Museum
opens in Kyiv.

July 10, 1994:   Leonid Kuchma is elected President
of Ukraine.

July 11:   Fisherman's Day.

July 11, 1819:   military settlers rebel against serfdom
at Chuhuyiv.

July 11, 1925:   the Ukrainian National Democratic
Association (UNDO) is formed in Lviv.

July 12, 1581:   Ostroh Gospel is printed by
Ivan Fe..dorov.

July 12, 1941: Great Britain and the USSR sign an agreement on
joint combat operations against Germany.

 

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