1923: Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR adopts a decree instituting the OGPU State Political Directorate of the Soviet Secret Police (Cheka) and places it under the Moscow-based Sovnarkom’s command.
1941: Soviet Ukraine Radio starts broadcasting from Moscow.
1942: Moscow establishes an extraordinary commission to investigate Nazi war crimes and those perpetrated by their accomplices during the Second World War.
1944: Mikeshin’s well-known sculpture “Russia’s Millennium” is unearthed in Novgorod.
2004: OSCE, CE, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and observers from other organizations record numerous breaches of Ukrainian legislation during the presidential campaign.
2004: About two thousand university students hold a rally in Kyiv protesting the rigged presidential election.
