May 15, 2009. First national. A story about finding financing for the construction of a stadium in Lviv for the 2012 European Football Championship. Representatives of the construction company and the city government talk about raising funds, in particular through issuing bonds. The video shows the construction of the stadium.

Commenting: director of the Lviv branch of the construction company Ihor Semenov, first deputy mayor of Lviv Oleg Synyutka, deputy of the Lviv City Council Volodymyr Hirnyak.

Olga Krupnyk, Anatoly Kyrychuk worked on the plot.

How did Lviv prepare for Euro-2012?

October 24, 2005. The first channel. The plot tells about the sale of the Kryvorizhstal metallurgical plant to Mittal Steel. The material shows the course of the auction for the sale of a package of shares of the enterprise and the reaction to privatization by politicians and the public.

In the video: a picket near the State Property Fund of Ukraine, flags, Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko near the fund building, an auction and a scoreboard with the results of the sale of a stake in Kryvorizhstal for 24 billion 200 million hryvnias to Mittal Steel. Viktor Yushchenko comments on privatization on the street. 

Authors of the plot: Oleksandr Bondarenko, Volodymyr Lozenko.

How "Kryvorizhstal" was sold: auction details

July 28, 2009. First National TV. A report on changes in the exchange rate in Ukraine: the dollar rose in value on the interbank market, and the euro also strengthened. Against the backdrop of currency exchange offices in operation, financial analyst Mykola Ivchenko and economic expert Andriy Novak comment on the situation on the currency market.

The Dollar Rises: The Currency Situation in the Summer of 2009

August 6, 1997. Lviv. The program “Science and Time” is devoted to the reasons behind the failures of economic reforms in Ukraine during the first seven years of independence.

Oleg Kuzmin, Ph.D. in Economics, analyzes the state of the economy, mistakes in privatization, the decline in investment, problems with small business development, tax policy, and the growth of the shadow economy. Among the consequences, he cites job losses, the displacement of Ukrainian enterprises from international markets, and a worsening crime situation. At the same time, the expert notes positive changes: curbing inflation, the development of the banking system, and the creation of a secondary securities market. The episode also discusses the activities of Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.

Commentary by: Oleg Kuzmin, Ph.D. in Economics.

Host: Oksana Prokip.

Reforms, Privatization, and the Crisis: The Ukrainian Economy of the 1990s

June 16, 1999. Lviv Television. The program "Economics" tells about Drohobych and Stebnyk, their industrial potential, economic difficulties and social infrastructure. The focus is — on the state of industrial enterprises, unemployment, city budget problems, investment attraction, housing construction and financing of education and culture.

In the program: landscapes of Drohobych, urban infrastructure and industrial enterprises. The history of the city and the development of industry, the formation of the city budget, tax legislation, environmental problems, the reduction of ore production at the Stebnytskyi State Mining and Chemical Enterprise "Polymineral" and its restructuring. They also discuss the state of the housing stock, the possibilities of attracting funds for the construction and repair of housing, the operation of the pension fund and the purchasing power of the population.

Commenting: Mayor of Drohobych Oleksiy Radzievskyi, Head of the Department of Economics of the Drohobych City Executive Committee Hanna Vasina, Technical Director of Stebnytskyi State Mining and Chemical Enterprise "Polymineral" Mykola Yakovlev, Secretary of the Drohobych City Council Mykola Garasimyak, Head of the Department of Capital Construction of the Drohobych City Executive Committee Vasyl Bohonok, Head of the Department of Social Protection of the Population Petro Sadlivskyi, Director of the State Enterprise "Ocean" Roman Gamal.

The following worked on the program: author Adriana Stelmakh, director Natalka Savytska, cameraman Zinova Chopoidalo, video editing Volodymyr Hnativ, Ivan Andrusyk, Viktor Yarmush, sound engineer Tetyana Shiposh.

Drohobych in the late 1990s: the economy and problems of the city

September 2, 2020. "Public Studio". The plot is devoted to the introduction of the hryvnia as the national monetary unit of Ukraine and its transition from coupon coins to modern banknotes and coins.

The material tells about the history of the monetary reform of 1996, preparations for the introduction of the hryvnia and the transition to it as the only legal means of payment. It shows how the denominations of banknotes and coins changed when the graphic sign of the hryvnia appeared and what images are placed on Ukrainian banknotes. In particular, we are talking about banknotes with portraits of Hryhoriy Skovoroda and Volodymyr Vernadskyi, as well as about the gradual transition from paper banknotes to circulation coins.

Journalist: Anastasia Poya.

Hryvnia: history of the national currency of Ukraine

August 8, 2009. Odesa Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "Banknotes of our state" tells about the Ukrainian hryvnia and prominent figures whose portraits are depicted on banknotes. 

The presenter talks about the transition from coupon-karbovantsi to the hryvnia and introduces the audience to the stories of Volodymyr the Great, Yaroslav the Wise, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ivan Mazepa, Ivan Franko, Taras Shevchenko and Lesya Ukrainka. 

Historical information about the life and activities of Ukrainian figures is complemented by fragments of feature and historical films, photographs, reproductions from books, archival documents, manuscripts and editions of Ivan Franko's works. The story about Ivan Mazepa is accompanied by footage of Ukrainian cities and landscapes, and the story of Taras Shevchenko is shown against the background of his drawings and photographs.

Nataliya Karai, Halyna Zakharova, Ihor Derevyanko, Yevhen Hoffman, Kostyantyn Shevchenko, Anna Buziyan worked on the program.

"Banknotes of our state": outstanding Ukrainians in hryvnias

May 8, 2005. Vinnytsia.

Special project "Vinnytsia Industrial. History lessons" is devoted to the history of the development of the sugar industry in Vinnytsia and the reasons for its decline. The material uses archival photos illustrating the development of the sugar industry in the region, and shows a sugar factory.

Commenting: General Director of the association "Vinnytsia Sugar" in 1981–1996 Borys Zhmaka, head of the Vinnytsia regional branch of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Petro Kuznetsov.

Vinnytsia: the rise and decline of the sugar industry

June 11, 2013, Donetsk.

In the video: the main entrance to the Krasnolymansk mine, the administrative building, the sculpture of a miner; the work of miners, the descent into the mine, various plans; a tour of the mine, comments; coal, equipment, production processes.

How miners work: Krasnolymansk mine

First National, 2003. A report on a unique X-ray machine that the US government has donated to Ukrainian customs officials as a gesture of cooperation in the fight against organised crime and terrorism. It can be used to determine the contents of a container in 15–20 seconds without opening it.

On the video: the facility in operation; a speech by John Herbst, US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine (2003–2006); customs officers; photographers.

Commentary: Mykola Kalenskyi, Head of the State Customs Service; Ihor Kalenyk, Head of the Black Sea Regional Customs Office.

Authors: Viktor Veselyk, Viktor Martyniuk.

An X-ray machine from the U.S. government

December 21, 2003, Kyiv.

In the video: the building of the Kyiv railway station, the central entrance, the clock, the sign "2004"; platforms and railway tracks; information board of arrival and departure of trains; arrival of the international train "Kyiv — Krakow"; inspection of the new rolling stock, different types of cars, compartments, kitchen, televisions and modernized sanitary rooms; conversation with conductors; demonstration of passenger compartments; driver's cabin and inspection of new equipment; the train heads to the depot; a train ticket in the hands of the conductor; railway workers on the platform.

The first flight of the train "Kyiv — Krakow", 2004

First National, 2003.

A news report on law enforcement officers providing security in the fields to help farmers safeguard their grain, monitor compliance with safety regulations in the fields and at grain silos, deter thieves and oversee the operation of machinery in the fields.

The video features footage of the harvest, agricultural machinery, checks on workers’ documents and a fire extinguisher test; commentary by Oleksii Kalenskyi, Head of the Traffic Police Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kyiv region.

The report was produced by Oleg Mashchenko and Serhii Levytskyi. 

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