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Russkiy Mir – April 8

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Russkiy Mir – April 8


08.04.2010

Important past and current events on this date in Russkiy Mir

  • Russian Center to be opened by the Russkiy Mir Foundation in the Donetsk research Library (Donetsk, Ukraine)
     
  • The presidents of Russia and the United States, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, will sign a new strategic arms treaty
     
  • Conference “Victory over Fascism in 1945: Its significance for the peoples of the CIS and the rest of the world” opens in Moscow 
     
  • Conference “Lessons of History: The Great Patriotic War and World War II in the History of Russia and the World in the 20-21st Centuries” opens in St. Petersburg
     
  • 852 years ago (1158) Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky initiated construction of the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir
     
  • 228 years ago (1782) Ekaterina II issued a decree about the creation of public schools throughout Russia
     
  • 227 years ago (1783) Ekaterina II issued a decree bringing the Crimea to the Russian empire
     
  • 82 years ago (1928) the Communist Party stripped the Orthodox church of its legal status in the USSR
     
  • 54 years ago (1956) the theater Sovremennik opened in Moscow 
     
  • 44 years ago (1966) Leonid Brezhnev was selected Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
     
  • 24 years ago (1986) Mikhail Gorbachev used the word “perestroika” for the first time during a visit to a factory in Togliatti

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