This week in history

November 15, 1918. An uprising began against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky headed by the Dyrektoriya.

1919. The UNR State Council with the participation of Dyrektoriya members and UNR government gave Supreme Otaman Symon Petliura “the supreme command over the Republic’s affairs.”

November 16, 1913. The Kyiv Conservatory, Ukraine’s leading musical higher education institution, was opened.

1994. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a law On Ukraine Joining the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons of July 1, 1968.

November 17, 1648. Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s embassy left to Semyhrad Prince George I Rakoczy with a proposal to start a campaign against Poland and conquer the Polish crown.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

November 18, 1993. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and the Lisbon Protocol.

1994. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine cancelled the Declaration on the Sovereignty of the Crimea.

November 19, 1989. Poets Vasyl Stus, Yury Lytvyn, and philologist Oleksiy Tykhy were reburied at the Kyiv Baikove cemetery.

1991. The First All-Ukrainian Interfaith Forum began its work in Kyiv.

November 20, 1917. The Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) was proclaimed.

1994. During President Leonid Kuchma’s state visit to the US the Charter on Ukrainian-American Partnership, Friendship, and Cooperation was signed.

November 21, 1996. The First Congress of the German Minority in Ukraine was held in Kyiv.

1996. President Leonid Kuchma signed an order, On Creating the Ukraine for Children National Fund for Social Protection of Mothers and Children.