Forty-five years ago, on Nov. 9, 1976, a Citizens Committee to Monitor Compliance with the Helsinki Accords was established in Ukraine (known simply as the Ukrainian Helsinki Group). The organization was headed by Mykola Rudenko, a Ukrainian poet and a member of the Soviet chapter of Amnesty International.
The Ukrainian Weekly: What happened in Ukrainian history on Nov. 9, 1976
The drone picture shows an aerial view of the Independence Monument in Kyiv on Aug. 18, 2021.