Dec. 9 1918: The Directory resolved to reinstate the Ukrainian National Republic’s law on an 8-hour working day, the collective bargaining system, and the right to go on strike.
2004: The Committee of National Redemption announced that pickets in front of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Presidential Administration, as well as tents on Kyiv’s Independence Square, would remain in place until the election rerun.
Dec. 10 1637: The Pavlo But-led Cossack and peasant army, which rose up against the Polish nobility, suffered a defeat near the town of Borovytsia.
2004: Germany and Poland suggested that the European Union grant Ukraine market-economy status if a fair presidential election is held.
Dec. 11 1991: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to establish diplomatic relations with the countries that were once part of the former USSR.
2004: The Ukraine Channel broadcasts a telethon featuring presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych and his political followers.
Dec. 12 1818: An institute for Girls of Noble Birth opens in Poltava.
1988: The AN-225 (Mria) plane performs a test flight in Kyiv.
Dec. 13 1941: In Kyiv the Nazis arrest Ukrainian intellectuals who are active members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
2004: Experts at the Rudolfinerhaus Clinic in Austria announce their final conclusion: an attempt was made to poison Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
Dec. 14 1918: Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky of Ukraine abdicates in favor of the Directory.
2004: The “Friendship Train” sets off from Kyiv to the eastern, southern, and northern regions of Ukraine to disseminate the truth about what happened on the Maidan.
Dec. 15 1932: The CC CP(B)U adopts a resolution banning the delivery and sale of manufactured goods in 82 raions that failed to meet the grain delivery quotas.
2004: In view of the stabilization of the credit and foreign exchange market, the National Bank of Ukraine adopts a resolution on the free purchase and sale of US dollars.
