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Henry M. Robert

This week in history

25 March, 2008 - 00:00

March 25 1993: The National Central Interpol Bureau is founded in Ukraine.

1994: Ukraine and Russia sign a 10-year cultural cooperation agreement.

March 26 1919: The Supreme Soviet of National Economy of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet of National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR sign an agreement instituting a uniform economic policy.

1944: Troops of the Third Ukrainian Front launch the Odesa Offensive, liberating Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts, and a considerable part of Moldova.

March 27 1943: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to establish the Taras Shevchenko State Literary and Art Museum.

1993: The annual drama prize Kyivska pectoral is launched in Kyiv, in conjunction with World Theater Day.

March 28 1708: Peter I of Russia signs an edict instituting a secular alphabet in place of Church Slavonic.

1999: As part of the Sea Launch project, Ukraine’s carrier rocket Zenit 3SL is successfully launched from a floating platform near the equator.

March 29 1917: The newly-founded Hetman Polubotok Ukrainian Military Club is headed by Mykola Mikhnovsky, who begins forming a national army.

1993: Kyiv hosts the First All-Ukrainian Convention of Industrialists.

March 30 1651: In Bila Tserkva Bohdan Khmelnytsky holds talks with Myslawski, the envoy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

1821: The southern branch of the Decembrist Society is founded in Tulchyn.

March 31 1970: Ukraine’s largest tube-rolling mill goes into operation at the Nykopil Southern Steel Works.

1993: Kharkiv hosts Ukraine’s First International Drama Festival, Berezil-93.

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