‘History of Ukrainian Statehood’: significant events in history

2000, National Television Company of Ukraine. A programme from the series ‘History of Ukrainian Statehood’ devoted to reviewing significant events in Ukrainian history since the 1991 All-Ukrainian referendum.

The video features: opening credits, Ukrainian symbols, archival footage of important historical events (the collapse of the USSR, Leonid Kravchuk in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the formation of the CIS, President Leonid Kravchuk's oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people, the decision on Ukraine's non-nuclear status, the adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine), students of Kyiv Specialised School No. 196 express their opinions on independence, the Ukrainian army, the Black Sea Fleet, rallies, the Verkhovna Rada, the harvest, and the Ukrainian Cossacks. The video recording includes fragments produced by the State Enterprise ‘Ukrainian Television Film Studio ’Ukrtelevizor" and materials from the Central State Film, Photo and Phono Archive.

Comments: Leonid Tupchienko, candidate of philosophical sciences; Viktor Pynzenyk, Deputy Prime Minister; Hennadiy Udovenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN from 1985 to 1991.

Authors: Stanislav Kulchytsky, Oleksandr Ryabokrys, Nadiya Dovgych.