April 27, 2010, Kyiv.

The plot is about the riots between the government and the opposition in the Verkhovna Rada over the ratification of the agreements on the extension of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's stay in Ukraine until 2042 in exchange for a gas price reduction (the “Kharkiv agreements”). Stand-up by journalist Igor Krymov with an umbrella, the parliamentary hall, the speaker is being pelted with eggs, the opposition seats are covered with the Ukrainian flag, smoke from smoke bombs in the hall, a fight between deputies, the results of the vote.

Comments: politician from the Party of Regions Oleksandr Yefremov; representative of the opposition; representative of the opposition party “Batkivshchyna” Yulia Tymoshenko.

“Egg rain” in the Verkhovna Rada

September 2, 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa.

A story about the visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to the Earth Summit. The city, people working, the Intercontinental Johannesburg Sandton Towers hotel, stand-up journalists, demonstrators with flags and banners, the summit hall on the screen, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at the podium, Kuchma's meeting with Romanian President Ion Iliescu, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, and Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa. Commentary by President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.

Leonid Kuchma in Africa

April 21, 2019, the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine, Kyiv.

The video shows a survey by exit poll services in the constituency #221. Representatives of the exit poll are conducting a survey at the exit, a box for questionnaires with a survey, forms to fill out, members of the election commission, voters, ballots, booths, ballot boxes, the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies named after Oleksandr Razumkov, employees of the center at work. Comments of exit poll representatives and voters.

Elections 2019: exit poll

April 21, 2019, second round of the presidential election, Pechersk district, Kyiv.

Video of voting at a polling station in the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine. Voters, members of the election commission, ballots, ballot boxes, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko are voting.

Comments: Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy; presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko.

Presidential elections 2019: second round

April 21, 2019, presidential elections in Ukraine, Kyiv.

Video of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine with interim results of the second round of elections. Scoreboard with percentage of voting by region, information on vote count. Briefing by Deputy Chairman of the CEC of Ukraine Yevhen Radchenko.

Elections 2019: interim results of the second round

April 21, 2019, Second round of the presidential election in Ukraine, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.

The video shows the headquarters of presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko's speech, journalists in the hall, the performance of the Ukrainian anthem.

Presidential elections 2019: Poroshenko's headquarters

A news report on the division of the Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol, June 12, 1997.

In Kyiv, on May 28, 1997, the heads of government of Ukraine and Russia signed a series of documents on the status and conditions of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's stay on the territory of Ukraine. The agreement was aimed at further “development and strengthening of friendship and cooperation” between the two countries.

In the video: warships on the dock, embankment, sailors, monument, protest, people with posters, views of the city, sunset, military, sailors. Sevastopol Mayor Viktor Semenov meets with Ukrainian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Mykhailo Yezhel and Russian Black Sea Fleet Admiral Viktor Kravchenko.

Black Sea Fleet: 1997

1999, Transnistria.

The plot chronicles the events in the Transnistrian conflict. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma with Moldovan President Petr Lucinschi and President of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic Igor Smirnov, signing documents; chronicle of 1992: russian 14th Army, a residential building burning, a corpse, a bus with a broken window, Governor General Alexander Lebed, tanks driving on a training ground, military exercises, shots of the city, shooting in the street; military parade, meeting, Moldovan President Petr Lucinschi speaking behind the rostrum, deputies on the sidelines, a village, barbed wire.

Transnistrian conflict

Kyiv, October 1990. The Second All-Ukrainian Meeting of Representatives of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

The video shows part of the Rukh meeting: Ivan Drach, Volodymyr Yavorivsky, Dmytro Pavlychko in the presidium, reading notes from the audience; Vyacheslav Chornovil's speech - the audience gives him a standing ovation, Chornovil speaks about the Rukh's activities, whether strikes are needed in Lviv region, cooperation with the diaspora, the People's Council, presidential elections, dissolution of the parliament, Crimea, eastern regions of Ukraine, and the federal system; other participants also speak: Mykola Kutsenko (Poltava region), Henrik Altunyan (Kharkiv), Mykola Yakovyna (in his speech he mentioned Stepan Bandera as a Hero of Ukraine), Atibar Taymurov (representative of the Azerbaijani People's Front), Volodymyr Pylypenko (Kremenchuk), Rostyslav Mayoryk (tractor driver from Ternopil region), Rostyslav Zatkhay from Poliske village (his speech concerns the problems of Chernobyl), Volodymyr Bleshko (Dnipropetrovs'k region).

The video has technical defects. 

Reference: The Second Congress of the People's Movement of Ukraine was held on October 25-28, 1990 in Kyiv. At this congress, the main goal of the movement's activities was defined as the independence of Ukraine. The words “for perestroika” were removed from its name. Ivan Drach was elected chairman of the Movement, and Mykhailo Horyn and Oleksandr Lavrynovych were elected deputies.

The central leadership of the Movement, the Secretariat, the Political Council, the Coordination Council, the Council of Colleges, and the Council of Nationalities were also elected. 

The second meeting of the Rukh

January 13, 2006, Kyiv.

Interview of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko to journalists of the central channels. He talks about the relations between the government and the parliament, their attitude to the president, the parliament, constitutional amendments, the resignation of the government and the withdrawal of the president's signature from the memorandum, the referendum, domestic and foreign policy, public violations of the memorandum, the resignation of the Constitutional Court, elections, gas and the history of gas relations with Russia, Ukraine's independent energy balance, and its transit function from Asia to Europe.

Interview with Viktor Yushchenko

May 4, 2012, Kyiv.

The video shows the visit of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (2010-2014) to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War to congratulate veterans. Museum rooms, exhibits from the Second World War, Yanukovych enters the hall, examines the exhibits, Yanukovych's speech at the rostrum on the occasion of the “Victory Day”, shaking hands, speeches by veterans, young people presenting flowers, a joint photo of Yanukovych, veterans and young people, Motherland.

Yanukovych welcomes veterans to World War II museum

January 28, 2014, Kyiv.

The video shows an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, where most of the “dictatorial laws” of January 16, 2014 were repealed by a majority of 361 votes. The session hall of the Verkhovna Rada, the anthem of Ukraine is playing, a minute of silence for the victims of the Maidan, deputies vote and comment from the floor, representatives of different factions talk during breaks. The meeting is chaired by the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Rybak (2012-2014). 

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