27 January 2014, Simferopol, Crimea.

The video shows Simferopol International Airport named after Sultan Amet-Khan. The airport is covered in snow, the entrance, the old and new airport buildings, people coming and going, a board with information about cancelled or delayed flights, passengers with suitcases in the waiting room.

Simferopol International Airport

28 February 2014, Sevastopol, Crimea.

A plot about the beginning of the seizure of Crimea by Russian militants without identification marks. Amateur footage of Russian equipment on the territory of Crimea, commentary by the State Border Service, Sevastopol Maritime Guard Detachment, armed military personnel, Russian military ship, checkpoint, ‘little green men’ conducting a search, military patrol near Belbek airport, video message from the Crimean Tatar diaspora, Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Comments: local residents; Andriy Sytnikov, representative of the civil defence of the village of Verkhnosadove.

The beginning of the annexation of Crimea, 2014

8 July 2013, Stary Krym, Crimea.

A plot about the pilgrimage festival of Armenian art ‘Surb Khach-2013’. Water pouring, the monastery complex of the Armenian Apostolic Church Surb Khach, a concert of folk groups, barbecuing.

Comments: festival participant Kima Zhamagachan; head of the Crimean Armenian Society Vagarshak Melkonyan; head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Anatoly Mogilev; actress and host of the festive concert Olga Sumskaya.

Surb Khach Festival 2013 in Crimea

October 14, 2003, Tuzla Island, Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

The plot is dedicated to the training of servicemen of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in the Kerch Strait.

In the video: Kerch Strait, Russians are building a dam, various plans of trucks and construction; maritime guard of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, training; Tuzla Island, border guards on duty.

Journalist — Maksym Sukhenko.

Reference: The conflict around Tuzla Island in October 2003 became aggravation of Ukrainian-Russian relations due to the construction by Russia of a dam in the Kerch Strait from the Taman Peninsula to Ukrainian territory. Ukraine regarded these actions as an attempt to exert pressure on the issue of border delimitation in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. Construction was halted on October 23, 2003, when the Ukrainian positions were about 100 meters away. In November 2003, the parties agreed to stop the work, and a new Ukrainian border post was opened on the island.

Tuzla Island: Border Guard Training

20 July 2007, Crimea.

A plot about the sixth international festival ‘Let's Change Life for the Better,’ held at the Artek children's camp. Flags of different countries, children dancing, girls in national costumes, press conference, stage, mountains, Black Sea. Comments: festival participant from Israel Sabina Tabachnik; chair of the board of the All-Ukrainian Foundation ‘Hope and Goodness’ Valentina Dovzhenko; festival participant from Armenia Mikhail Kantaria.

Artek: ‘Let's Change Life for the Better’ Festival

January 5, 2003, Crimea.

The plot is dedicated to a new trolleybus route along a mountain route in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

In the video: a trolleybus adapted for a mountain route, the driver talks about the features of driving; interior, new trolleybus interior, government officials.

Comments: driver German Skryabin; Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Sergey Kunitsyn; General Director of "Krymtrolleybus" Eduard Makedonov.

Mountain Trolleybus Route

August 22, 2006, Simferopol, Crimea.

A story about the consequences of the railway collapse in Crimea. Simferopol railway station, people with suitcases on the platform, queues at the kiosk, a fountain. Comments: the head of the Simferopol station, Volodymyr Reznichenko; passengers.

Railway collapse in Crimea

1996, Sevastopol, Crimea.

On the video: Chernivtsi TRK arrived at a gas station in Sevastopol. Night, Lukoil gas station, price board, gas station workers. Comments: gas station operator Lyudmila; Chairman of the Board of the JSC Repair and Adjustment Department Mykhailo Kuzmenyuk.

Gas station in Sevastopol, 1996

July 19, 2007, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

A plot about a car accident on the mountain road “Simferopol-Alushta-Yalta”. A broken bus, injured passengers near the bus, the dead, ambulance takes the victims, assistance is provided on the spot, documents in blood, a memorial plaque to the miners killed in the accident, a broken bus inside, scattered things, a press conference of the Minister of Transport of Ukraine Mykola Rudkovsky.

Comments: injured passengers; head of the automobile technical inspection of the Crimean traffic police department Sergey Kozintsev; a witness.

Background: On July 19, 2007, near Alushta, on the Simferopol-Alushta-Yalta highway, a Karoza passenger bus en route from Chernihiv to Yalta overturned. There were 54 people in the cabin - six people died, 44-46 were injured, including several children. The reasons were the technical condition of the bus and the driver's violation of the rules in mountainous conditions.

A car accident in Crimea, 2007

November 14, 1997, Sevastopol, Crimea.

Video interview with Ivan Levchenko, CEO of the Sevastopol Regional State Television and Radio Company and journalist.

Reference: Ivan Vasilyevich Levchenko is a Ukrainian journalist, poet, and Honored Journalist of Ukraine. From 1997 to 2004, he headed the Sevastopol Regional Television and Radio Company, actively developing Ukrainian-language broadcasting. He worked as an assistant press secretary to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and is also the author of several poetry collections.

Інтерв'ю з Іваном Левченко

October 1, 2006, Crimea.

The plot is about the hunters' festival near Yalta.

In the video: festival participants with rifles, different shots; tent camp; bird hunting, different shots; hunters on vacation.

Comments: Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Ukrainian Society of Hunters and Fishermen Mykola Shulyar; festival organizer Valery Boyko; hunter Andriy Kelbynsky.

Journalist — Tetyana Gural.

Hunters' Festival

Sevastopol Television, 1995.

The program "Sevastopol in May" is dedicated to the celebration of "Victory Day" in the city of Sevastopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

On the video: Malakhov Kurgan Memorial Complex, World War II veterans lay flowers at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, light a fire; a solemn procession of veterans and families of deportees, a woman holds a poster with the inscription "Prisoners of Nazi Camps" (in Russian); National Museum of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol, exposition, various plans; reading of letters from Soviet fighters, fragments of front-line black-and-white chronicles; black-and-white panorama of Sevastopol, museum employees talk about the defense of Sevastopol and military campaigns in these areas during World War II; memoirs of Maria Bayda, photographs from the personal archive of a scout; interviews with veterans of World War II.

Comments: Senior Researcher of the Museum of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol Larisa Yurievna Smulskaya, Maria Petrovna Aposhanskaya; Researcher Lidia Pavlovna Efremova; World War II veterans: Soviet intelligence officer, sanitary instructor of the 514th Rifle Regiment of the 172nd Rifle Division Maria Bayda; Hero of the Soviet Union Stepan Neustroyev; Captain 1st Rank, retired Vasily Fesenko; participants of the 1945 parade Sergey Shevchenko and Anatoly Dubynin; Vice Admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union Volodymyr Pylypenko.

The program is voiced in russian languages.

Author and director — Iryna Katvalyuk.

Crimea AR