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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 November, 2012 - 00:00

September 29, 1926: the Soviet Ukrainian government proclaims the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery an historical-cultural preserve. September 29, 1941: the Nazi begin mass shootings, primarily of Jews, in the Babyn Yar ravine near Kyiv. September 30, 1941: Soviet troops begin defense and offensive operations near Moscow. September 30, 1992: the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Association of Independent Researchers of the 1932-33 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine. October 1, 1653: a Council of the Land (Zemsky sobor) resolves to place the Zaporizhzhia Cossack Host under a protectorate of the Muscovite tsar. October 1, 1971: a republican musical art festival begins in Kyiv. October 2, 1920: the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars signs a cease-fire with anarchist Nestor Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine and they begin joint operations against Wrangel’s White forces. October 2, 1990: Kyiv students begin a hunger strike to bring down the Masol government. October 3, 1078: Princes Iziaslav and Vsevolod Yaroslavych battle Prince Oleh Sviatoslavych near Chernihiv. October 3, 1917: the All-Ukraine Congress of Cossacks convenes in Chyhyryn, approving their Statute and electing a General Council. October 4, 1957: the Soviet Union launches the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1. October 5, 1594: Severyn Nalyvaiko's Cossack rebellion begins.

 

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