May 1, 2004.

A plot about the celebration of the May Day holiday in various cities of Ukraine.

Kyiv: march of the "Communist Party", children in pioneer costumes, march of the "Social Democratic Party of Ukraine", laying flowers at the monument to Lesya Ukrainka, concert, march of the "Party of Regions". Comment by the People's Deputy of Ukraine Vasyl Horbal.

Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi): a column of demonstrators marching along the central streets, a column of the "Labor Ukraine" party. Comment by the head of the Kirovograd Regional State Administration Vasyl Kompanets.

Kharkiv: a column with flags of the SDPU(o), the "Party of Regions", flags of Ukraine, St. George ribbons.

Donetsk: march of demonstrators in national costumes, Donetsk youth with flags of Ukraine, girls with drums.

May Day marches in Ukraine, 2004

January 21, 2010, Kyiv.

A plot about mechanical dolls by the artist-puppeteer Marina Rudenko. Stand-up of a journalist, art space, doll gallery. Comments: artist-puppeteer Marina Rudenko; art manager Larisa Rubel; artist Yulia Skrypka; gallery owner Oksana Pomozan.

Mechanical dolls

January 21, 2011, Kyiv region.

In the video: police officers on the parade ground, practicing various actions using a shield and a baton; various training plans; theoretical training with weapons, the instructor talks about different types of police weapons.

Training of the special forces unit "Berkut"

Kharkiv, Kharkiv Regional Television and Radio Company, 2010.

The programme ‘Euro-Atlantic Studies’ is devoted to the topic of the war in Yugoslavia: the causes and preconditions for the start of the war, NATO's role in its conclusion, ethnic cleansing, and the situation in the country's political structure on the eve of the war. 

Comments are provided by the programme's guests: political scientist Oleksandr Romaniuk, political scientist Vyacheslav Tseluyko, and historian Ihor Rassokha.

The author and host of the programme is Tamara Tracevich.

The role of NATO in the Yugoslav conflict

Kharkiv, Kharkiv Regional State Television and Radio Company, 2009. The programme ‘Labyrinth’.

The author and host of the programme, Olga Kravchenko, talks with studio guests about Hetman Ivan Mazepa, the historical context of his era, his conscious dream of an independent Ukraine, the image of Mazepa in art, the phenomenon of Cossack Mazepa Baroque, and the hetman's social activities.

Comments are provided by guests: Professor Artur Yareschenko, Chief Ataman of the Kharkiv District Valery Gitin, Chief Ataman of the South-Eastern Cossack District ‘Sloboda Sich’ Yuri Shein, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Organisation of Ukrainian Registered Cossacks Viktor Posokhov, and others.

Some comments are in Russian.

Restoring the truth about Hetman Mazepa

8 October 2001, Poland.

Commentary by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma on the crash of a Sibir Airlines Tu-154 aircraft over the Black Sea. 

Reference: The crash of the Sibir Airlines Tu-154 occurred on 4 October 2001 over the Black Sea as a result of being hit by an S-200 missile during Ukrainian Air Force exercises. Seventy-eight people were killed, most of them Israeli citizens. Ukraine acknowledged its responsibility and paid compensation, and the criminal case was subsequently closed without bringing any officials to justice.

Kuchma on the downed russian TU-154 aircraft

2003, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program "UPA. Unknown Pages" from the series "History of Ukrainian Statehood" is dedicated to unknown facts of the history of Ukraine during World War II, the reasons that led to the creation of the OUN and the UPA, the struggle of the Ukrainian people, in particular the UPA fighters against the occupiers for an independent Ukrainian state.

In the video: screensavers, interviews with members of the OUN and UPA, archival photos, chronicle videos, lines of the poem "The Last Bow" by Nestor Korzhevsky are heard.

Heroes of the video: Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences Yaroslav Dashkevych; liaison officer of the Chief Commander of the UPA Roman Shchukhevych Daria Guslyak; OUN member, prisoner of Buchenwald Lydia Bil-Goryanyuk; General-Coroner, Chief Commander of the UPA Vasyl Kuk; Head of the OUN Brotherhood of the UPA of the Carpathian Territory Fotii Volodymyrskyi; referent of the Dolynskyi supra-district Wire of the OUN Ivan Dolyshnyi; referent-political educator of the "Turiv" Military District Stepan Semenyuk; Professor, Candidate of Historical Sciences Guriy Bukhalo; UPA soldier Oleksandr Hordiychuk; UPA security service intelligence officer Stepan Samko; rifleman "UPA - South" Volodymyr Karatash; editor-in-chief of the "Litopys UPA" Petro Potichnyi; communications scout of the Burlaky hundred Ivan Starostyak; intelligence officer, UPA communications officer Maria Yukish; member of the OUN "Youth" Mykola Makolyuk; centurion Myroslav Symchych; herald, swarm centurion Vasyl Melnyk; village headman of the Rakiv village Vasyl Andrusiv.

Author: Oleksandr Ryabokrys.

"UPA. Unknown Pages"

October 6, 2010, Kyiv.

A plot about the invention of a device by Ukrainian scientists to save energy lost on the way from power plants to consumers. Scientists demonstrate the device and its operation, patent documents.

Comments: inventor, leading engineer of the National Aviation University Vitaliy Kryuk; co-author of the invention Mykola Beldiy.

Energy saving device

2008, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program "Between Us..." is dedicated to Japanese people living and working in Ukraine.

On the video: screensavers, a journalist's stand-up, interviews with Japanese people - Takashi Kuroki, Tamiya Tomoe and Hiroshi Kataoka, fragments of their life in Ukraine; the streets of Tokyo, footage of the aftermath of the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, landscapes of Japan.

Author: Khrystyna Stebelska.

"Between us...": Japanese people in Ukraine

1998, Chernivtsi State Television and Radio Company.

On video, the contests "Miss Bukovina-98" and "Miss Western Ukraine-98" in the Chernivtsi Olga Kobylyanska Music and Drama Theater. Waltz on the theater stage, the first contest "Gifts from Mother's Chest", the appearance of the participants in Ukrainian national costumes, the "Heavenly Grace" contest (rhythmic dance contest), the "What if..." contest, the appearance of the participants in swimsuits, the appearance of the participants in evening dresses. Among the participants was the future Ukrainian model, actress and presenter Inna Tsymbalyuk.

The following took part in the contest: a duet of pop and choreographic miniatures Larisa and Leonid Sydorchuk; a duet of ballroom dance under the direction of V. Khomitsky with rumba; Honored Artist of Ukraine Olga Dobryanska performs the songs "Snow is Falling" and "Lautary".

"Miss Bukovina - 98"

14 October 2007, Kyiv.

A plot about the traditions of celebrating the Feast of the Intercession at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine ‘Pirogovo’. A priest conducts a service near the church, a girl in national dress with a candle, a church choir sings, an icon of the Holy Mother of God, the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, a fair.

Comments: visitor Ruslana Lotsman; rector of the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, Father Bohdan; senior research associate at the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Romana Kobalchynska.

Traditions of celebrating Pokrova

14 October 2016, Kyiv.

The video shows the solemn oath-taking ceremony of the students of the Ivan Bohun Military Lyceum in Kyiv. Sofia Square, cadets lining up, taking the oath, military orchestra, speech by President Petro Poroshenko, minute of silence for the fallen, solemn march, St. Sophia Cathedral, footage from a quadcopter, bells.

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