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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

30 September, 2008 - 00:00

Sept. 30 1992: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Association of Researchers of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide of 1932-33.

2003: The Aviation Museum opens in Kyiv.

Oct. 1 1871: The Pavlo Galagan Collegium opens in Kyiv. In 1920 it is reorganized as a general education workers’ school.

1960: The Association for Cultural Relations with Ukrainians Abroad is founded in Kyiv.

Oct. 2 1942: The Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) adopts a resolution on the development of a partisan movement in Ukraine.

1990: Hunger-striking students in Kyiv demand the resignation of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and the abolition of the Union agreement.

Oct. 3 1917: The All-Ukrainian Congress of Cossacks in Chyhyryn adopts its statute and elects a General Council headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky.

1973: A monument to the outstanding Ukrainian poet Lesia Ukrainka is unveiled in Kyiv.

Oct. 4 1890: The Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party, Ukraine’s first political party, is founded in Lviv.

1996: The South Ukrainian Economic Union is founded in the Crimea.

Oct. 5 1933: The People’s Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution on the Berezil drama company, relieving Les Kurbas of his post as artistic director and manager.

1993: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Oct. 6 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s rebel troops lay siege to Lviv.

2001: Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland open the European Collegium of Ukrainian and Polish Universities in Lublin.

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