This week in history

June 8. 1993. The most massive nationwide miners’ strike started in Ukraine, causing a decrease in coal production and decline in coal mining.

1995. President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the order On Appointing Yevhen Marchuk Prime Minister of Ukraine.

June 9. 1847. Russian Tsar Nicholas I approved the sentence sending Taras Shevchenko to the army and forbidding him to write and paint.

1995. The presidents of Ukraine and the Russian Federation signed an agreement in Sochi On the Separate Deployment of the Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and Ukraine’s Naval Forces and also on division of the Black Sea Fleet’s property.

June 10. 1917. The Ukrainian Central Rada proclaimed in its First Universal the autonomy of Ukraine.

1994. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Ukrainian Students League.

June 11. 1921. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decision, On Fighting Children’s Homelessness.

1992. The International Jewish Solomon University was founded in Kyiv.

June 12. 1943. The Carpathian raid to unite Stalinist partisans under Semen Kovpak began.

1964. The Council of Ministers of Ukraine founded prizes named after renowned Ukrainian scholars Mykola Krylov (mathematics), Yevhen Paton (technology), Lev Pysarzhevsky (chemistry), and Vasyl Yuryev (biology).

June 13. 1917. A Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers took place at the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum, where Mykhailo Hrushevsky delivered a report, On Ukraine’s State Order Basing Upon the Life Requirements and Theory of State Law.

1996. President Leonid Kuchma announced that the transfer of strategic nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia was completed.

June 14. 1994. An Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation was signed in Luxembourg between Ukraine and the European Community.

1997. A new all-Ukrainian trade union organization, the Association of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, was founded.