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Vyacheslav Chornovil, whom Crimea does not know

Vyacheslav Chornovil, whom Crimea does not know

1991, 16 min

Lviv, 1991. Lviv Television.

The video consists of two parts.
The first part is an interview with Vyacheslav Chornovil by journalist Tamara Hryhorash. The interview was recorded at the Lviv Regional Council for Crimean viewers on the eve of the presidential elections. In the interview, the politician expresses his concern that Crimea has taken the wrong path, talks about his vision of the state's land system, speculation surrounding the language issue, the future political system of the state, his election campaign, and the idea of the dominance of the human personality in any political decisions.
The interview is in Russian.

Part two. Tamara Grygorash, on Lviv's main street, Svobody Avenue, addresses Crimeans, talks about her ties to Crimea, and suggests meeting with Vyacheslav Chornovil in a program she recorded with the politician a year earlier, in 1990, which was shown only once, on Lithuanian television.

Reference: Vyacheslav Chornovil (1937-1999) was a Ukrainian politician, public figure, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, and head of the People's Movement of Ukraine. In 1991, he ran for president of Ukraine as a candidate from the People's Movement (Leonid Kravchuk was elected president at that time). At the time of the election, he was chairman of the Lviv Regional Council and a member of parliament.