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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

2 October, 2007 - 00:00

Oct. 2 1942: The Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) - the VKP(b) - adopts a resolution to develop a partisan movement in Ukraine.

1990: Students begin a hunger strike in Kyiv, demanding the resignation of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and the rejection of the Union Treaty, etc.

Oct. 3 1917: The All-Ukrainian Congress of Cossacks takes place in Chyhyryn, during which the statute of the organization is adopted and the General Council headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky is elected.

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

1890: The first Ukrainian political party, the Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party, is founded in Lviv.

1996: The Southern Ukrainian Economic Union is created in the Crimea.

Oct 5 1933: The People’s Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution on the Berezil drama company, which results in the dismissal of Les Kurbas from his post as artistic director.

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

Oct. 6 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s rebel army begins the siege of Lviv.

2001: In the Polish city of Lublin President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and President Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland open the European Collegium of Ukrainian and Polish universities.

Oct. 7 1990: The 15th Congress of Ukrainian Trade Unions is concluded by the founding of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine.

2003: The Ukraine-EU summit starts in Yalta (Crimea).

Oct. 8 1886: The Municipal Public Library of Kharkiv welcomes its first readers.

1938: The first government of autonomous Transcarpathia is formed in Uzhhorod. On Dec. 30, 1938, it is renamed Carpatho-Ukraine.

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