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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

3 April, 2007 - 00:00

April 3 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decree announcing former estates of Baron Freidrich F. Falz-Fein, Ascaniya Nova and Yelyzavetfeld, a national nature preserve.

April 3 1990. An azure-yellow flag was officially raised above the Lviv City Hall for the first time in Ukraine.

April 4 1936. The Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Ophthalmology (now the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy) was founded in Odesa.

April 4 1996. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the law On the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.

April 5 1992. By a decree of President Leonid Kravchuk the Black Sea Fleet was declared to be Ukrainian.

April 5 1995. The first certificate auction took place in Kyiv at the Ukrainian Certificate Auction Center.

April 6 1654. The Ukrainian Embassy received from Muscovite Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich the confirmation of the conditions, under which the Ukrainian Cossack state agreed for the protectorate: preserving of political-judiciary system, social structure and army of the Cossack state.

April 6 1992. The Verkhovna Rada passed a resolution on the preparation of a scientific-documentary edition in many volumes about the victims of repression in Ukraine.

April 7 1990. The constituent assembly of Ukraine’s State Independence Union started in Lviv.

April 7 1993. The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice registered the All- Ukrainian Union of Local Studies.

April 8 1990. A charitable non-governmental organization, Ukrainian-American Renaissance Foundation, was founded.

April 8 1994. The National Bank of Ukraine conducted the first auction of Russian ruble’s sail on the technical base of the Ukrainian interbank currency market.

April 9 1917. The Central All-Ukrainian Union of Cooperatives was founded at the First Congress of the Ukrainian Cooperatives.

April 9 1921. Writer Anton Chekhov’s House-Museum was opened in Yalta.

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