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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 

8 June, 1999 - 00:00

June 8, 1668: Petro Doroshenko is elected Hetman of Ukraine.

June 8, 1947: navigation is restored on the Dnipro after opening
the Zaporizhzhia sluice.

June 9, 1847: Tsar Nicholas I confirms the court ruling exiling
Taras Shevchenko as a Russian soldier, forbidden to write or paint.

June 9, 1995: the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine meet in Sochi
to sign an agreement on a separate deployment of the Black Sea Navy as
that of Russia and the Naval Forces of Ukraine, with special clauses on
the delimitation of its property.

June 10, 1964: a monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in
Moscow.

June 11, 1913: the All-Russia Agricultural, Industrial, and Artistic
Exhibition opens in Kyiv.

June 11, 1921:  the Soviet Ukrainian government launches
a campaign against child homelessness.

June 12, 1943:  Soviet partisan units reorganized as a division
under Sydir Kovpak's command start to raid the Nazi rear in the Carpathian
Mountains.

June 12, 1991: Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian
Federation.

June 13, 1912: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma announces that
all strategic nuclear weapons deployed in Ukraine have been transferred
to Russia.

June 14, 1768: Haidamak insurgents led by Maksym Zalizniak and
Ivan Honta take Uman.

June 14, 1996: President Kuchma decrees the establishment of
the Oles Honchar All-Ukrainian Fund for the Rebirth of Outstanding Monuments
of Ukraine's Historical and Architectural Legacy.

 

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