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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 week in history

24 April, 2007 - 00:00

April 23 1919: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree whereby all private schools and institutions of higher learning are to be financed by the central budget.

1949: The Taras Shevchenko State Literary Memorial Museum opens in Kyiv.

April 25 1908: In Lviv Myroslav Sichynsky, a student, assassinates the Austrian Governor General Andrzej Potocki as a sign of protest against his anti-Ukrainian policies.

1994: President Leonid Kuchma signs an edict instituting the National Television and Radio Council.

April 26: Chornobyl Remembrance Day

1986: Power Unit 4 explodes at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station, contaminating some 150,000 m? of the territory of the Soviet Union with a population of 6,945,000. This is the worst man-made disaster of the 20th century.

April 27 1906: The first issue of the Russian-language Ukrainian political journal Ukrainskii vestnik [The Ukrainian Herald] comes off the presses in St. Petersburg.

1995: The Verkhovna Rada adopts Ukraine’s first government decoration, the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

April 28 1887: A convention of sugar manufacturers in southern Russia establishes Ukraine’s first monopoly, a sugar syndicate.

1958: A schedule of visa-free cultural exchanges between the Ukrainian oblasts of Lviv, Drohobych, Volyn, and the Polish provinces of Lublin and Rzeszow is signed in Warsaw, a first for Soviet Ukraine’s border cooperation.

April 29 1990: A convention of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group is called to order in Kyiv. It resolves to dissolve its organizatons and institute the Ukrainian Republican Party on the group’s basis.

1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a bill on the status of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.

April 30 1615: A print shop is founded on the grounds of the Kyivan Cave Monastery.

1956: The Crimean State Fine Arts Museum (Vorontsov Palace) is instituted in Alupka.

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