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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 

13 October, 1998 - 00:00

October 13, 1948: Dashava-Kyiv gas pipeline is completed. October
13, 1969:
World War II memorial to fallen Soviet soldiers and partisans
is dedicated in Poltava. October 14, 1942: the UPA Ukrainian Insurgent
Army is founded. October 14, 1943: Zaporizhzhia is cleared of the
Nazis. October 15, 1926: Russian Drama Theater (named for Lesia
Ukrainka in 1939) opens in Kyiv. October 5, 1990: Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. October 16,
1596:
the Church Union of Brest is confirmed. October 16, 1918:
Hetman Skoropadsky issues an edict reinstating the Cossacks. October
17, 1676:
Poland and Turkey sign the Treaty of Zhuravne whereby Turkey
retained Podillia and part of Right-Bank Ukraine. October 17, 1989:
the first USSR Krok animated cartoon festival begins in Kyiv. October
18, 1917:
the First All-Ukrainian National Congress opens in Kyiv.
October 18, 1945: Uzhhorod University is founded. October 19,
1946:
Taras Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theater of Kyiv hosts the premiere
of Mykola Lysenko's opera, Taras Shevchenko. October 19, 1995: CIS
representatives in Minsk sign an agreement On Coordinated Efforts against
Organized Crime.

 

 

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