This week in history

Nov. 11 1920: Units of the Red Army and Nestor Makhno’s troops seize the Isthmus of Perekop, opening the way to the Crimean Peninsula.

1921: Kyiv hosts a Church Council that proclaims the founding of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky.

Nov. 12 1772: The Crimea is proclaimed independent of the Ottoman Empire.

1992: The coupon-karbovanets is introduced into circulation in Ukraine.

Nov. 13 2004: The Central Election Committee approves a decision to hold a televised debate between presidential candidates Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych.

Nov. 14 1939: An extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR passes a bill joining Western Ukraine to the USSR and its “reunification” with the Ukrainian SSR.

2004: In Kyiv and Lviv artists hold rallies known as the Orange Autumn in support of Viktor Yushchenko.

Nov. 15 1919: At a state meeting of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) the members of the Directory and the UNR government appoint Symon Petliura “commander in chief of all affairs of the republic.”

2004: Ukraine’s First National TV Channel (UTV-1) broadcasts a televised debate between presidential candidates Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych.

Nov. 161913: Ukraine’s first music conservatory opens in Kyiv.

1994: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a bill on joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of July 1, 1968.

Nov. 17 1993: The Ministry of Justice registers the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in Ukraine.

2004: The noted British journalist Askold Krushelnycky publishes a sensational article in The Independent, reporting that the Ukrainian militia was instructed to rig the presidential elections in Ukraine.