This week in history 

July 6, 1927:   All-Ukraine Central Executive Committee passes a resolution securing the equality of all languages and assistance in the development of Ukrainian culture.

July 6, 1987:   Crimean Tatars stage a demonstration on Red Square in Moscow.

July 7:   St. John the Baptist Day.

July 7, 1659:   Cossack troops led by Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians at Konotop.

July 7, 1949:   the Nazi Wehrmacht besieges Kyiv.

July 8, 1709:   Muscovite troops led by Tsar Peter I defeat Swedish King Charles XII and Ukrainian Hetman Mazepa in the Battle of Poltava.

July 8, 1997:   NATO and Ukraine sign a special partnership Charter in Madrid.

July 9, 1783:   Russia's Military Board [War Ministry] issues an edict reorganizing Cossack regiments as regular regiments of the Russian Army.

July 9, 1961:   a statue of Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Winnipeg.

July 10, 1968:   Maksym Rylsky Literary-Memorial Museum opens in Kyiv.

July 10, 1994:   Leonid Kuchma is elected President of Ukraine.

July 11:   Fisherman's Day.

July 11, 1819:   military settlers rebel against serfdom at Chuhuyiv.

July 11, 1925:   the Ukrainian National Democratic Association (UNDO) is formed in Lviv.

July 12, 1581:   Ostroh Gospel is printed by Ivan Fe..dorov.

July 12, 1941: Great Britain and the USSR sign an agreement on joint combat operations against Germany.