Warsaw, June 25, 1999. A story about the visit of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma to Poland.

In the video: the President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski and the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma participate in the ceremony of consecrating the monument to the fallen soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR); the opening of the photo exhibition "Difficult Brotherhood" with the participation of Leonid Kuchma; press conference.

Poland: commemoration of UNR soldiers

October 2006, Israel.

The video shows the first day of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma's official visit to Israel. 

Ukrainian delegation at the airport, official event, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is present, Kuchma and Israeli President Ezer Weizmann are making speeches, delegations at the negotiating table; Yad Vashem - Israeli national memorial to the Shoah (Holocaust) and Heroism. Commentary by Ukrainian TV journalist, civil servant Zinoviy Kulyk.

Leonid Kuchma in Israel

October 10, 2000, Turkey.

The video shows the official visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to Turkey. Meeting with former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel; Istanbul, Kuchma's speech at the Ukrainian-Turkish business forum; Edirne, the delegation travels by boat and around the city, Kuchma at the Selimiye Mosque.

Kuchma in Turkey

February 19, 1996, Kyiv.

The video shows the meeting of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma with Afghan soldiers, dedicated to the anniversary of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the commemoration of the participants of combat operations on the territory of other states. The meeting was attended by: Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Kuzmuk; head of the Ukrainian Union of Afghanistan Veterans Serhiy Chervonopysky. 

The Presidential Administration, Kuchma talking to the military, speeches by the military at the podium, Kuchma presenting Chervonopysky with a statuette - a smaller copy of the monument to the fallen in Afghanistan, and presenting awards.

Kuchma's meeting with Afghan soldiers

1996, Virginia, USA.

Video of the working visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to the United States. Pentagon, honor guard, US Secretary of Defense William Perry meets Kuchma, Pentagon corridors, Kuchma and Perry answer questions from journalists about Ukraine's nuclear disarmament, photo of a disarmed missile, Pentagon museum, exhibits, Ukrainian and American delegations at the table.

The meeting was attended by: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States Yuriy Shcherbak; National Security Advisor to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Horbulin. 

Leonid Kuchma in Pentagon

Kyiv, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, February 25, 2010.

The video shows a prayer service during which Patriarch Kirill of the russian Orthodox Church blesses Viktor Yanukovych for the presidency. Service, people on duty, guards. Yanukovych is baptized, kisses a cross, an icon, and makes a speech. The territory of the Lavra. 

Yanukovych's blessing for the presidency

January 8, 2003, Warsaw, Poland.

Video shows a one-day visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to Poland. Yanukovych in the Sejm, greeting Polish Sejm Speaker Marek Borowski, at the negotiating table, exchanging gifts, Yanukovych signs the book of honored guests, greeting Senate President Longin Pastusiak, sitting down at the negotiating table.

Note: Yanukovych's first visit abroad as Prime Minister was to Poland. The parties discussed the completion of the Odesa-Brody-Gdansk oil pipeline and the visa regime.

Yanukovych in the Polish Sejm

Kyiv, 25 June 1999.

The Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Suzanna Stanik, comments on the consideration of the issue at the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the fulfilment of the commitments undertaken by Ukraine when it joined the Council of Europe.

Ukraine in the Council of Europe

23 March 1996.
A report on the two-day working visit of President Leonid Kuchma to Switzerland.

The first day: Geneva. Meeting with the UN Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the UN European Office in Geneva, Vladimir Petrovsky; press conference on Ukraine's compliance with international disarmament obligations; talks with representatives of the World Trade Organisation on the prospects of Ukraine's accession to the organisation; visit to the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross; meeting with representatives of the political elite in Geneva.

Day two: Bern. Meeting with the President of Switzerland Jean-Pascal Delamere; visit to the Embassy of Ukraine.

President Leonid Kuchma in Switzerland

The video features an address by Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, on the Chernobyl accident. 

He talks about the rescue efforts, names the number of victims and deaths, describes the probable causes of the accident - the sudden increase in reactor capacity during a scheduled shutdown, the accumulation of steam and hydrogen and the explosion, the evacuation of the population, and more. He says that as soon as they received reliable information, they communicated it to the public and the world. He also accuses the United States and other NATO countries of reacting to the disaster and accusing the USSR. 

The video is in Russian. 

Note: The accident at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred on April 26, 1986. The first Soviet media report on the accident appeared only on April 28, and Mikhail Gorbachev's public address was made only on May 14, 1986. 

Gorbachev: the Chernobyl accident, an address

Kyiv, February 27, 2014.

The story is about the work of the Cabinet of Ministers after Viktor Yanukovych's escape. Activists from the “Maidan Self-Defense” are at the fence of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, in the meeting room, ministers are at the table. They are talking about an empty budget, kickbacks, raising gas tariffs, prices, and making unpopular decisions to overcome the financial crisis.

Comments: Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Lyudmyla Denysova; Minister of Finance of Ukraine Oleksandr Shlapak; Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan; Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. 

Cabinet after Yanukovych's escape

March 20, 1996, мoscow. 

The story is dedicated to the first meeting of the Mixed Ukrainian-russian Commission on Cooperation, headed by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk and russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. 

In the video: different views of Moscow, people walking, “Arabat Gate”; the Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Prime Minister of Russia at a meeting, a round table, various plans for the conference and approval of the results of the Joint Commission on Cooperation. Comments: Prime Minister of Ukraine Yevhen Marchuk; Prime Minister of russia Viktor Chernomyrdin. 

The program was prepared by: Hryhoriy Tychyna, Nelli Lutsenko, Serhiy Bulanenko, Bohdan Shevchyk.  

Reference: The agreement between Ukraine and the russian Federation signed on January 16, 1996, establishes the Joint Ukrainian-russian Commission to promote cooperation in various fields, including economics, science and technology. The Commission aims to coordinate and implement bilateral agreements, monitor the implementation of agreements, and support integration processes between the two countries. 

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