"One Hundred Questions to...": Orest Vlokh

Lviv Television, editorial office of exchange programs. The episode of the program "One Hundred Questions to..." from February 20, 1991 is dedicated to an interview with Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, co-chairman of the Lviv regional organization of the People's Movement of Ukraine, People's Deputy of the 1st convocation Orest Vlokh.

In the video: interview, Orest Vlokh talks about his parents and the environment in which he was raised; about conscience as a spiritual concept; about the competence of people's deputies and representatives of higher power, the need for bureaucratic structures; about the role of the intelligentsia in the revival and development of the nation, the internal intelligentsia of Ukrainians; about liberalism, tactics of action to achieve the goal of building an independent Ukrainian state, consolidation of competent people; about the significant influence of the Communist Party on the modern situation; about the minority and majority in parliament, the formation of a coalition; about compromises in politics and life, about the ability to forgive mistakes, about the limit of compromises; about hope and faith in difficult situations for both an individual and a people.

Journalist — Tamara Hryhorash.

Reference: Orest-Stepan Vlokh — Ukrainian physicist, public and political figure, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 1st convocation, one of the founders and the first chairman of the Lviv regional organization of the People's Movement of Ukraine. In the scientific field, he made a significant contribution to the development of physical optics and nonlinear optics, founded the Institute of Physical Optics in Lviv. In political activity, he actively contributed to the democratization of society, the establishment of Ukrainian statehood and national revival in the late 1980s — early 1990s.