May 26, 2003, Pavshyno village, Transcarpathia.

The video shows the temporary detention center for illegal immigrants “Pavshyno”. The camp, barracks, illegal immigrants wash their clothes, fetch water, chop wood, a cook cooks in a field kitchen, barbed wire, clothes are drying, dishes are tied to barbed wire, guards, illegal immigrants rest on the ground, beds in barracks, hieroglyphics on the walls, a family of illegal immigrants in a dormitory prepares food.

Camp for illegal immigrants in Transcarpathia

May 26, 2004, Donetsk.

Video shows a press conference of the head of the Donetsk Regional Court of Appeal, Oleksandr Kondratiev, on the criminal record of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Donetsk Court of Appeal, courtroom, Alexander Kondratiev behind the rostrum, journalists in the audience.

Yanukovych's criminal record

May 26, 2005, Kyiv.

A plot about checking the quality and price of fuel at gas stations. City, road, cars, scoreboards, gas stations, fuel, refueling, survey of drivers, State Consumer Standard of Ukraine. Commentary: Bohdan Rudenko, head of the gas station control sector; Mykola Negrych, head of the State Consumer Standard.

Fuel quality, 2005

May 26, 2002, Vinnytsia, Kyiv.

Report on the problems of the Ukrainian judicial system and the need for its reform. Indoor Vinnytsia Prison #1, section of life sentenced prisoners, prison cells, prisoners, interview with a prisoner, Ministry of Justice, Minister of Justice Oleksandr Lavrynovych talking to journalists, statue of Themis, interview with the head of the High Council of Justice Serhiy Kivalov, Kyiv Court of Appeal, court session, Lukyanivske SIZO, journalistic investigation, documents, photos from the crime scene, judge expels the film crew from the courtroom.

Comments: experts; convicts on forced confessions.

Problems of the judicial system, 2002

May 23, 2005, Kyiv.

A plot about the beginning of health care reform. A man with the first group of disability, a queue at the entrance to the Ministry of Health, a government meeting, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is present, an appointment in the doctor's office, X-rays, stand-up journalist.

Comments: pensioner V. Kudryavtsev; dentist Tetyana Antypchuk; laboratory doctor Tetyana Reshetina; Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko; Minister of Health Mykola Polishchuk.

Healthcare reform

May 26, 1998, the village of Vyhraiv, Cherkasy region.

A plot about the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the Battle of Korsun. People in Cossack costumes, flags, a procession to the memorial stone at the battle site, paintings depicting the battle, military men, girls in national costumes. Commentary by Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks Volodymyr Mulyava.

Battle of Korsun - 350 years ago

Kharkiv TV studio, March 31, 1987.

Stories about celebrating weddings, anniversaries, and sending off to the army without drinking alcohol. Regional seminar "Non-alcoholic post-rite celebrations. March '87". Comments by seminar participants on new rituals and scenarios for celebrations and the practical significance of the seminar.

The video is in Russian. Part of the video is without sound.

Reference: On May 7, 1985, the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a resolution “On Measures to Overcome Drunkenness and Alcoholism and Eradicate Moonshine Making.” An anti-alcohol campaign was launched across the country: liquor stores were closed, production of alcoholic beverages was reduced, and vineyards were destroyed. Under the slogan “Sobriety is the norm of life,” banquets without alcohol were promoted. The anti-alcohol campaign was a complete failure.

Non-alcoholic celebrations

September 20-22, 1988, Kharkiv TV studio. Footage of the Days of Poznan in Kharkiv.

The video shows: the opening of the exhibition “Polish Film Poster”; a friendly match between the volleyball teams Budivelnyk (Kharkiv) and AZS-Poznan; a decade of Polish cuisine in Kharkiv restaurants; the opening of an exhibition of drawings, graphics, and sculpture at the Art Museum; a joint Ukrainian-Polish meeting in the hall of the Kharkiv Regional Executive Committee; a joint laying of flowers at the Lenin Monument and the Memorial of Glory; a meeting of members of the Poznan delegation at the Kharkiv railway station.

The video also shows a hockey game between Dynamo Kharkiv and Torpedo Yaroslavl and a sports day of the Kharkiv Production Association of the Bakery Industry at the Serp i Molot Stadium.

Poznan Days in Kharkiv

May 23, 2005, Kharkiv.

A plot about police torture of detainees. A victim, a detention center, a meeting. Comments: S. Aleksakhin, a victim who became a group 3 disabled person after being taken to the police; Vasyl Sobolev, head of the research laboratory of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs; Arkadiy Bushchenko, expert of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group; Oleksandr Yarmysh, rector of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.

Torture in the Kharkiv Ministry of Internal Affairs

May 23, 2007.

A plot about the National Television Company of Ukraine demanding that russia be disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest. Verka Serdyuchka's performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, Russian television, footage from the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, the meeting of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Ukraine.

Commentary: Vitaliy Dokalenko, President of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Ukraine; Tetyana Lebedieva, member of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting; Anatoliy Salnyk, General Director of the ORT repeater company in Ukraine.

Eurovision 2007: NTCU vs. russia

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1990.

The film "Zazhur-gora" is dedicated to the consecration of the cross and the construction of the monument "The Bell of Memory" on the Mound of Sorrow (Zazhur-gora) in memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933.

Witnesses from the villages of Mhar and Vilshanka, Poltava region, share their memories of the Holodomor: M. A. Gorovenko, G. V. Kopykina, O. T. Kucherenko, F. P. Ostapenko.

The following spoke at the consecration of the site of the future mound of national mourning and memory: Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR Leonid Kravchuk, Chairman of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation Borys Oliynyk, and writer Oleksa Kolomiyets. The cross was consecrated and a memorial service was held by the vicar of the Kyiv diocese, Ionathan.

Reference: The Mound of Sorrows is the first memorial in Ukraine to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, built in 1993 on Zazhur-gora near the Mharsky Monastery on the initiative of Oleksa Kolomiyets and the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The author of the project is architect Anatoliy Ignashchenko; the main element of the monument is a bell with a cross, surrounded by smaller bells from all regions of Ukraine.

"Holodomor: Construction of the Mound of Sorrow"

May 21, 2009, Kyiv.

A plot about the construction of the new US Embassy in Kyiv. A stand-up journalist, a construction site, US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor digging up earth at the site of the new embassy, stands with the project, Kyiv Central Basin Clinical Hospital named after Academician V. Ivanov.

Comments: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor; Director General of the Directorate General for Services to Foreign Missions Pavlo Kryvonos; Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the Kyiv Central Basin Clinical Hospital Adelina Omelchenko.

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