Yevhen Sverstyuk, 1989: About UANTI and the Vasyl Stus Prize

From the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

January 18, 1989, Lviv.

On the video: Yevhen Sverstyuk at the table, speaking to the camera; Yaroslav Kendzor congratulates Yevhen Sverstyuk on the position of president of the UANTI association (Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia); interview with Yevhen Sverstyuk, he talks about the hopes placed on the association's activities, about the Vasyl Stus Prize, the significance of Vasyl Stus' poetry, the first laureates of the prize, and the courage of the actors of the youth theater, who were threatened by representatives of the regional department of culture and the KGB and insisted that they refuse the prize.