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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

14 April, 1998 - 00:00

April 15, 1929: Old age retirement is instituted in the USSR. April 15, 1994: Ukraine accedes to the CIS Economic Union Treaty as an associate member. April 16, 1710: Pylyp Orlyk, author of one of Europe's earliest constitutions, is elected Hetman of Ukraine. April 16, 1995: Direct international telephone code 380, received by Ukraine as the first post-Soviet country, becomes operational. April 17, 1970: The Ukraine Palace of Culture, one of the largest Soviet cultural facilities, is opened in Kyiv. April 17, 1991: Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR passes the law rehabilitating victims of political purges in Ukraine. April 18: International Day of Memorials and Historic Sites. April 18, 1936: the first exhibition of Soviet Ukrainian architecture opens. April 18, 1961: believers rally against the closure of St. Andrew's Church in Kyiv. April 19, 1775: Russian Empress Catherine II legalizes serfdom in Ukraine. April 19, 1943: Warsaw Jewish Ghetto uprising begins. Currently the date is marked as Holocaust Day. April 20, 1933: On Maxim Gorky's initiative Molodaya Gvardiya [Young Guard] Publishers launches the Lives of Prominent Persons documentary series. April 20, 1993: The First International Bandura-Players Contest is held in Kyiv. April 21, 1947: Deportation of Ukrainians from the Lemkivshchyna (Poland) begin. April 31, 1979: The Drama and Comedy Theater opens in Kyiv.

 

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