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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This day in history

16 November, 2010 - 00:00

1913: Government-run Pyoter Tchaikovsky Conservatory opens in Kyiv as Ukraine’s leading music school.

1918: Ukraine and the Extraordinary Mission of the Kuban Regional Government sign a trade, consular, sea, railroad, and financial cooperation agreement in Kyiv.

1924: Kharkiv transmits Ukraine’s first broadcast.

1966: The 5th Ukrainian Writers’ Congress convenes in Kyiv to defend the Ukrainian language against the Russification campaign.

1967: The 1st World Congress of Free Ukrainians is brought to order in New York City.

1991: The 1st Ukrainian Interethnic Congress is held in Odesa.

1994: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the bill on Ukraine’s accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

2004: Ukrainian journalists mark the Radio, Television and Communications Workers Day [instituted by President Leonid Kuchma, November 11, 1994] by protest rallies and graffiti condemning “bought” media workers.

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