This week in history

May 28: 1917. The First All-Ukrainian Peasant Congress began in Kyiv, supporting the Central Rada’s policy dedicated to on gaining autonomy for Ukraine.

1996 . Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma dismissed Pavlo Lazarenko as first vice prime minister and appointed him Prime Minister of Ukraine.

May 29: 1916. The Chernihiv Taras Shevchenko State Pedagogical Institute was founded.

1964. The largest botanical garden in USSR was founded in Kyiv.

May 30: 1876. Tsar Alexander II signed the Ems Ukase, prohibiting publishing and importing literature or staging plays in the Ukrainian language.

1923. The Ukrainian History and Philology Society was founded in Prague.

May 31: 1924. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR passed a decision On Protecting the Ancient Greek City of Olvia.

1989. The founding meeting of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies began in Naples.

June 1: 1652. Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s insurgents army defeated M. Kalinowski’s Polish army near Batih.

1996. A decision was adopted in Vienna to accept Ukraine as a full member of the Central European Initiative.

June 2: 1795. Decrees by the Russian tsar were made public on making the Right Bank Ukrainian provinces governor general dependencies.

1990. The First All-Ukrainian Congress of the Union of Independent Youth of Ukraine began.

June 3: 1869. The Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov Railroad was put into operation.

1906. Ukrayinsky Visnyk [Ukrainian Courier], magazine of the Ukrainian parliamentary community in the State Duma, began publication.