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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 March, 2009 - 00:00

March 24 1935: A monument to Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko, designed by the sculptor Matvii Manizer, is unveiled in Kharkiv.

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.

March 28 1957: The Kyiv Film Studio is named after the noted Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

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.

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