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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 8: International Day of Journalistic Solidarity. September 8, 1944: Soviet troops launch the Eastern Carpathian offensive, clearing Ukraine’s western territories of the German Wehrmacht. September 8, 1990: the Ukrainian Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers holds its organizing convention in Zaporizhzhia. September 9, 1941: after pitched battles Soviet forces retreat from Chernihiv. September 9, 1976: the first section of the Lysychansk Oil Refinery starts up. September 10, 1943: Oleksandr Shtoharenko’s cantata-symphony “My Ukraine” is performed for the first time in Moscow. September 10, 1947: USSR Supreme Soviet institutes a medal For the Restoration of Donbas Coal Mines. September 11, 1943: The Hryhory Veriovka State Meritorious Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir is established. September 11, 1996: the first issue of Den comes off the press. September 12: Ukrainian Cinema Day. September 12, 1996: The Young People’s Aeronautics and Space Education Center opens in Dnipropetrovsk. September 13, 1848: Ukrainian Language Chair is opened at Lviv University. September 13, 1911: Socialist Revolutionary Dmitry Bagrov shoots Russian Prime Minister Petr Stolypin who dies on September 18. September 14: Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Workers’ Day. September 14, 1871: Ukraine’s first Joint Stock Land Bank starts operating in Kharkiv.

 

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