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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

23 November, 2004 - 00:00

November 23. 1708. The Orthodox Church pronounced an anathema against Ukraine’s Hetman Ivan Mazepa for his alleged betreyal of Tsar Peter I.

1990. A meeting of parliamentary delegations from Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia began in Minsk.

November 24. 1905. An uprising began on the Ochakiv cruiser and other Black Sea Navy ships in Sevastopol.

1905. Temporary print regulations were promulgated in Russia, authorizing the printing of periodicals in the languages of the Russian Empire nations and canceling preliminary censorship.

November 25. 1917. The Ukrainian Central Rada passed a decision to issue its own money.

1995. The ministers of defense of Ukraine and Russia signed a number of documents in Sochi including the agreement On Cooperation in the Military Sphere.

November 26. 1917. An organizing congress (Kurultai) of the Crimean Tatars took place, putting forward a slogan, The Crimea for the Crimeans.

1944. The First Congress of Delegates from People’s Committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine approved a manifesto On the Reunification of Transcarpathian Ukraine with Soviet Ukraine.

November 27. Day of Memory of the Victims of the Manmade Famine and Political Repression.

1648. Polish King Jan II Kazimierz issued a universal guaranteeing Cossack rights.

1918. The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was established in Kyiv.

November 28. 1918. The Provisional Workers and Peasants Government of Ukraine was created, issuing a manifesto On Overthrowing Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky and Establishing Soviet Power in Ukraine.

1994. A meeting of the Constitutional Committee was held, meaning the renewing of the constitutional process in Ukraine.

November 29. 1661 . Lviv University was founded, now named for Ivan Franko.

1989. The reburial of victims of Stalinist repression took place in Ivano-Frankivsk.

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