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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

17 May, 2012 - 00:00

1909: Serge Diaghilev launches the famous Ballets Russes in Paris.

1918: The Soviet of People’s Commissars of Russia adopts a decree establishing the Labor Inspectorate.

1919: The Soviet of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree transferring the property of the monasteries, convents, churches, and other religious organizations to the People’s Commissariat of Social Security.

1934: The Ukrainian newspaper Nash klych starts being published in Argentina.

1935: The Special Meeting of the NKVD sentences Yurii Kotsiubynsky to five years of exile in western Siberia for participating in a “counterrevolutionary Trotskyite organization.”

1936: Lviv hosts the Anti-Fascist Congress of Culture.

1990: The founding meeting of the Majoronis Lithuanian Cultural Society is held in Kyiv. 

1991: The founding meeting of the Association of Democratic Press of Ukraine is held in Kyiv.

1997: Ukraine’s first Antarctic expedition is accomplished.

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