This week in history

June 2 1990: The 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth is convened.

June 3 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to propose joint military actions against the Kingdom of Poland.

1906: The first issue of the journal Ukrainskyi visnyk, the organ of the Ukrainian bloc in parliament and the State Duma, comes off the presses in St. Petersburg.

June 4 1500: The Kyiv community is exempted from all trade duties in accordance with Magdeburg Law.

1990: The Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church ordains Metropolitan Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) patriarch of the UAOC.

June 5 1990: The first Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church convenes in Kyiv.

June 6 Ukrainian Journalist Day

2000: U.S. President Bill Clinton begins his visit to Ukraine during which President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine announces that the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station will be closed on Dec. 15, 2000.

June 7 1989: The world’s largest aircraft, the AN-225 (Mria), flies from Kyiv to Paris with the orbital shuttle Burn mounted on its fuselage.

1993: The International Committee on Economic Reforms and Cooperation is established in Kyiv as a nongovernmental organization to encourage the inflow of private foreign capital.

June 8 1937: The first convention of Ukrainian architects opens in Kyiv.

1995: President Leonid Kuchma and Oleksandr Moroz, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, sign a constitutional agreement on the underlying principles of the organization and functioning of state power in Ukraine.