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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 

25 May, 1999 - 00:00

May 25. 1709. Tsarist troops destroyed the Zaporizhzhia Sich.

1973. The USSR's first Kyiv Winter Art Festival began in Kyiv.

May 26. 1648. Cossack troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated
Polish forces near Korsun.

1942. Great Britain and the USSR signed a treaty on alliance
and war against Nazi Germany.

 May 27. 1914. The naval version of the Russian four-engine
biplane Ilya Muromets made its maiden flight. 1919. Russia and Afghanistan
established diplomatic relations.

 May 28. 1920. The first issue of the Ukrainian national
newspaper Visti VUTsVK (News of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive
Committee) appeared.

1997. The heads of government of the Russian Federation and Ukraine
signed a package of documents on the division and basing of the Black Sea
Fleet.

May 29. 1964. The USSR's largest botanical garden was opened
in Kyiv.

1965. Donetsk University was opened.

May 30. 1923. The Ukrainian Historical and Philological Association
was set up in Prague.

1942. The Central Partisan Headquarters was established under
Red Army Supreme Command.

May 31. 1876. With the Ems Ukase the Tsarist government banned
the publication and import of literature in the Ukrainian language.

1935. The USSR Council of People's Commissars and the Central
Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) passed a resolution
on eradicating homelessness among children.

 

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