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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 

16 February, 1999 - 00:00

February 16, 1929: The first Week of Ukrainian Literature ends
in Moscow. February 16, 1994: Ukraine and Kazakhstan sign a communique
in Almaty expanding contacts between their military establishments. February
17, 1664:
Polish aristocrats execute Cossack Colonel Ivan Bohun, hero
of the Ukrainian Cossack Revolution. February 17, 1944: the Korsun-Shevchenkivsky
offensive, one of the largest operations during World War II, ends. February
18, 1969:
Soviet dissident poet Joseph Brodsky stands trial in Leningrad,
later to immigrate to the US (1972) and be award the Nobel Prize for literature.
February 18, 1979: Simferopol University opens. February 19,
1954:
The Crimean oblast is transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian
SSR in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the "reunification" of
Ukraine and Russia. February 19, 1992: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
affirms the tryzub (trident) as the Small Emblem of Ukraine, to
be considered as a key element of the Large National Emblem. February
20, 1919:
the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR passes
a decree on civil marriage and civil registry. February 21, 1899:
the world's first arctic icebreaker, the Yermak, designed by Admiral Makarov,
is launched at the shipyard of Newcastle upon Tyne. February 21, 1919:
the first issue of the newspaper Kommunar (Communard) is published
in Kyiv (later to become Vechirny Kyiv).

 

 

 

 

 

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