This week in history

January 14: 1864. The tsarist government approved a regulation, On Zemstvo Councils in the Russian Empire. The Zemstvo reform has started in the Left Bank and south gubernias of Ukraine.

1994. Presidents of Ukraine, Russia, and the US signed a trilateral statement and agreement On Liquidating Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine’s territory in Moscow.

January 15: 1955. Soviet Union officially stopped being at war with the Federative Republic of Germany.

1992. The Presidium of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the State Anthem (music arranged by Mykhailo Verbytsky).

January 16: 1918. The Small Rada of UNR passed a law On Creating Ukrainian Volunteers Army.

1991. Pope John Paul II founded Greek Catholic and Catholic church hierarchies in Ukraine.

January 17: 1919. The Central Military Revolutionary Committee of Donbas was created.

1921. The Ukrainian Free University was opened in Vienna, which was transferred to Prague in the fall of the same year.

January 18: 1654. The Cossacks Rada in Pereyaslav made a decision to swear allegiance to the tsar.

1944. The first serious collision took place between the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and NKVD troops in Volyn.

January 19: 1906. The Shershen [Hornet] magazine started its publication in Kyiv, first revolutionary satirical magazine in the history of Ukrainian journalism.

1992. By the initiative of Ukrainian Workers’ Party and Rukh movement reserve officers, citizens of Ukraine, took their oath in Kyiv.

January 20: 1661. The Lviv Jesuit College was granted “the status of an academy and title of a university” by royal privilege.

1943. The first issue of the Ukrayinske slovo [Ukrainian word] newspaper was published in Winnipeg.