Kyiv, 12 July 2018. 

In the video: protesters, banners ‘Freedom of speech for everyone!’, ‘Alasania, free the TV!’, flags of Ukraine, Svoboda party, a microphone, protesters sweeping up garbage, leaving the gate, the building of the Olivets TV centre, the street.

Comments: Maria Lunina, a participant of the action, about her motives to take part in the protest, the demands of the protesters.

Protest against censorship on Suspilne

The video shows a morning in a Ukrainian village. Fog over a pond, fisherman, ducks swimming, birds singing, a yard near a house with animals, a man playing with a dog, a woman milking a cow, a horse, chickens, ducks, a man carrying and lighting firewood. Comments of the inhabitants of the house.

Morning in the village

Rivne, October 10, 2008. The story is about an ancient burial site that Oleksandr Filinsky accidentally stumbled upon in his own garden.

Comments: Oleksandr Filinsky, the owner of the yard, about the unexpected discovery; Yulia Vasylenko, a journalist, about the ritual vessel; Valeriy Samolyuk, an employee of the cultural heritage department of the regional museum of local lore, about the features of the vessel.

Archaeological find from the Neolithic period

Kyiv, 11 May 2016.

A story about the return of the leaden seal of Prince Sviatoslav of Kyiv to Ukraine. 

Comments: Oleh Odnorozhenko, a researcher at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Archaeology and Source Studies, explains the image on the seal; Mykhailo Sahaidak, director of the Kyiv Archaeology Centre, on the seal's diplomatic function; Andriy Biletsky, MP, on the seal as a possible part of the ideological weapon of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Background: Prince Sviatoslav's seal was found during the landscaping of Kyiv to mark the city's 1500th anniversary. At the same time, one of the Russian archaeologists who took part in these works took the relic to Russia. After his death, the seal appeared on the black market. In 2016, with the participation of historian Oleksandr Alfyorov, former Azov battalion commander Andriy Biletsky and others, the seal was returned to Ukraine via third countries. 

The seal of Prince Svyatoslav

Kyiv, concert hall of the National Philharmonic, February 26, 2014.

Footage of a charity concert in memory of the fallen heroes of the Maidan, performed by the Academic Symphony Orchestra. The audience in the hall, a minute of silence.

Commentary: conductor, People's Artist of Ukraine Roman Kofman; director, broadcast director Mykhailo Krupiyevsky; co-organizer of the charity concert Yuriy Horban.

Concert in memory of the “Heavenly Hundred”

Chernivtsi, 1971.

The film is about collective speeches by scholars of the Faculty of Philology in the assembly hall of Chernivtsi State University on the topic ‘The anti-people nature of bourgeois nationalism and Zionism’. The speakers are professor and head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature Vasyl Lesyn, writer Chaim Malamuda, associate professor Mykhailo Ivasyuk, head of the regional branch of the Writers' Union, lecturer Viktor Kosichenko, and lecturer and poet Anatoliy Dobriansky.

Collective performance by philologists

Kyiv, Revolution of Dignity, February 26, 2014.

A story about the Circle of People's Trust, a Maidan representative office that acted as an intermediary between citizens on Maidan, the opposition and the authorities and expressed the will of citizens on Maidan. Maidan press center, meeting, activists in the hall. Maidan: barricades, Christmas tree, activists, stage, paper birds on trees, people laying flowers, Hrushevskoho Street, tires, rally, people's assembly.

Comments: Volodymyr Viatrovych, representative of the Maidan Public Sector; Serhiy Poyarkov, leader of Automaidan; Yaroslav Babych, member of the Right Sector; Olha Bohomolets, representative of the Maidan medical service; Yuriy, resident of Komsomolsk (Horishni Plavni).

Members of the Circle of People's Trust:
Archbishop Stefan from the Spiritual Council of Maidan,
Olga Bogomolets from the Maidan Medical Service,
Andriy Parubiy from Maidan Self-Defense,
Dmytro Yarosh from the Right Sector,
Oleg Mykhniuk from organizations of Afghan warriors,
Oleksandr Kryvonosov from the Council of Muslims,
Serhiy Poyarkov from Automaidan,
Volodymyr Viatrovych from the Civil Sector of Maidan,
Yevhen Nyshchuk, host of the Maidan stage,
Ruslana Lyzhychko, Maidan stage host.

The Circle of People's Trust of Maidan

Chronicle of 1962, 1963. The video is in black and white, partly with sound.

The video shows a pre-election meeting of Pavlo Popovych with voters in the Poltava Palace of Culture; Pavlo Popovych and Andriy Nikolaev plant chestnuts in Sevastopol, the entrance to the Malakhiv Kurgan memorial complex, an alley of chestnuts, astronauts get out of the car, enter the House of Fleet Officers.

Reference: Pavlo Popovych (05.10.1930-29.09.2009) was the first Ukrainian cosmonaut, pilot, member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of 6-11 convocations (1963-1990). He made his first flight into space on August 12-15, 1962, together with Andriy Nikolaev, and during the flight he sang the song “I look at the sky and think about my thoughts.” The second flight took place on July 3-9, 1974. Since 1993, he has been a Major General of Aviation in reserve.

Chronicle: Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich

Kyiv, February 26, 2014.

A story about the demolition of the fence separating Mariinsky Park and the Verkhovna Rada Square. Activists and members of the self-defense near the Verkhovna Rada, an excavator, sawing down the fence, singing the national anthem. Comments: self-defense member Danylko; activists and local residents.

Demolition of the fence near the Verkhovna Rada

A story about the play "The Dream of a Kobzar" in memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred, July 11, 2014.

In the video: fighters of the special battalion "Azov" pray on the Maidan, a portrait of Taras Shevchenko, fragments of the play "The Dream of a Kobzar" based on the works of Shevchenko.

Comments: actor of the play Oleg Romanchenko, Kyiv resident Halyna Shynkarenko, swarmer of the battalion "Azov" Ihor Kryvoruchko.

Performance "The Kobzar's Dream" in memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred

Exhibition "Heroes Don't Die" by Ivano-Frankivsk artist Roman Bonchuk, April 28, 2014.

On video: National Museum of Literature of Ukraine, paintings and triptych icon dedicated to the participants of the Revolution of Dignity. Comments by the author of the exhibition Roman Bonchuk, literary critic Yulia Dzhugastriyanska and guests of the event.

Journalist Viktoriya Levchenko and cameraman Yarema Malashchuk worked on the program.

Art Exhibition "Heroes Don't Die"

Kyiv, July 11, 2014.

In the video: Independence Square, Memorial to the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred, people laying flowers, a poster "People's Movement of Ukraine", a photo of Vyacheslav Chornovil, tents on Khreshchatyk, photos of the missing on a stand, photos of those killed during the Revolution of Dignity.

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