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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 

2 March, 1999 - 00:00

March 2. 1861. Serfdom is abolished in Russia. 1944. The
Soviet Army takes Lutsk and Rivne. March 3. 1918. The Russian Soviet
Federative Socialist Republic signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, recognizing
the independence of Ukraine. 1968. The Institute of Colloid and
Water Chemistry is established under the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian
SSR. March 4. 1750. Kyrylo Razumovsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine.
1989. Kyiv hosts the founding meeting of the Ukrainian Memorial
Historical and Educational Society. March 5. 1944. The Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to set up the People's
Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. 1956. The
Voroshilovhrad (now Luhansk) steam-locomotive factory produced its first
TE-3 mainline diesel locomotive. 1981. Moscow hosts a ceremonial
function dedicated to the ninetieth anniversary of poet Pavlo Tychyna's
birth. March 6. 1919. An All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets Kyiv
adopts a Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR. 1934. A monument to
Ukrainian national bard Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Kyiv. March
7. 1573.
Ivan Fedorov opens his print shop in Lviv, at which will print
The Apostle. 1995. Kyiv hosts Ukrainian-Russian negotiations
whereby the two parties initialed a treaty on friendship, cooperation,
and partnership.

 

 

 

 

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