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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

June 23, 1888: the Bohdan Khmelnytsky statue is unveiled on St. Sofiya Square in Kyiv. June 23, 1917: Presidium of the Central Rada is elected, headed by Mykhailo Hrushevsky. June 24, 1872: a city public library opens in Kherson. June 24, 1934: top-level government and party offices are transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv. June 25, 1941: the Nazi Wehrmacht forces the Soviets to retreat from Lutsk. June 25, 1992: the Black Sea Economic Commonwealth is established, composed of 11 countries, among them Ukraine. June 26: International Day of Struggle against Addiction and Drug Trafficking. June 26, 1919: the first congress of all Ukrainian communist youth organizations is held in Kyiv, establishing the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) of Ukraine. June 27, 1834: the first students are enrolled in Kyiv University. June 27, 1964: Taras Shevchenko statue is unveiled in Washington. June 28: Ukrainian Constitution Day. June 28, 1783: the Russian Defense Ministry orders the reorganization of Left-Bank Cossack regiments as regular Russian army regiments. June 28, 1918: the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Central Rada is formed, headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. June 29: Youth Day. June 29, 1945: the USSR and Czechoslovakia sign a treaty joining Transcarpathia to Soviet Ukraine.

 

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