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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 9, 1847: Russian Tsar Nicholas II orders Taras Shevchenko exiled, forbidding him to write or paint. June 9, 1992: the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Librarians opens in Kyiv. June 10, 1917: the First All-Ukrainian Peasants’ Congress begins in Kyiv. June 10, 1993: the Citizens’ Congress of Ukraine is registered with the Ministry of Justice. June 11, 1913: the USSR agricultural, industrial, and art exhibit opens in Kyiv. June 11, 1992: the International Solomon Jewish University opens in Kyiv. June 12: national holiday of the Russian Federation. June 12, 1920: the Red Army enters Kyiv. June 12, 1975: the State Historical-Architectural Preserve is founded in Lviv. June 13, 1983: Sevastopol is awarded the October Revolution Order in commemoration of the city’s bicentennial. June 13, 1996: President Leonid Kuchma declares that all strategic nuclear weapons have been removed from Ukraine. June 14, 1905: mutiny breaks out on board the battleship Kniaz Potemkin Tavricheskii. June 14, 1996: the President of Ukraine signs an edict establishing the Oles Honchar all-Ukrainian Fund for the Restoration of Outstanding Historical and Architectural Monuments. June 15: Medical Workers’ Day. June 15, 1939: The Taras Shevchenko Memorial and a new statue on the poet’s grave are opened in Kaniv. June 15, 1996: Ukraine joins the Disarmament Conference.

 

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