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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 2, 1944: the USSR State Defense Committee orders the deportation of all Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian, Armenian, and Greek inhabitants from the Crimea. June 2, 1980: the Kyiv Spring All-Union Festival of the Arts ends in Kyiv. June 3, 1842: the first volume of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls comes off the presses. June 3, 1938: Voroshilovhrad and Stalino (now Luhansk and Donetsk) oblasts are created. June 4, 1630: Taras Triasylo’s Ukrainian rebels battle Polish troops at Pereyaslav. June 4, 1775: Russian troops destroy the Zaporizhzhia Sich central Cossack fortress in Ukraine. June 5: International Environmental Protection Day. June 5, 1648: Cossacks under Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat the Poles in the Battle of Korsun. June 6: Journalists Day. June 6, 1708: Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa and Swedish King Charles XII sign a treaty on joint military action against Muscovite Tsar Peter I. June 6, 1962: a monument to Aleksandr Pushkin is unveiled in Kyiv. June 7, 1949: the House of Technology opens in Kyiv. June 7, 1989: the world’s biggest plane, AN-225 (Mriya) with the Buran orbital space vehicle attached to its fuselage flies from Kyiv to Le Bourget (near Paris) to figure in an international aeronautics and space exploration exhibit. June 8, 1947: Zaporizhzhia floodgates open, allowing full-scale navigation on the Dnipro River. June 8, 1995: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and Speaker Oleksandr Moroz sign the Constitutional Agreement.

 

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