This week in history

Feb. 6 1919: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR (Radnarkom) forwards a note to the governments of Great Britain, US, France, and Japan, protesting the Entente’s intervention in southernUkraine.

1958: The Union of Cinematographers Ukraine is founded.

Feb. 7 1919: The Radnarkom adopts a decree creating the workers and peasants’ militia.

1995: A treaty on friendship, cooperation, and partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation is initialed in Kyiv.

Feb. 8 1994: Ukraine joins NATO’s program Partnership for Peace in Brussels.

1995: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a bill on the exploitation of nuclear energy and radiation safety.

Feb. 9 1918: The Peace Treaty of Brest is signed; one of its positive results is the recognition of Ukraine as an independent state by Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

1932: A decree is adopted, instituting an administrative-territorial reform, the creation of oblasts, and the switch to a three-phase center-oblast-raion system of administration.

Feb. 10 1940: The first stage of deporting the population from Ukraine’s western oblasts, affecting 220,000 people, is launched.

1940: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists splits into the OUN-B (under the leadership of Stepan Bandera) and OUN-M (Andrii Melnyk).

Feb. 11 1950: The CC CP(B)U adopts a resolution containing cliche accusations of “antipopular character, formalism,” etc., directed against the journal Dnipro.

1989: The founding conference of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society is held (later renamed the All-Ukraine Prosvita Society).

Feb. 12 1921: The Permanent Conference for the Struggle against Banditry is formed under the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

1960: The first experimental nuclear reactor goes into operation in Ukraine.