News release for October 14, 2014

Chernihiv ODTRK, news release for October 14, 2014, combines the following stories and reports:
— violation of the silence regime by Russian troops;
— President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko decided to celebrate October 14 as the Day of Defender of Ukraine;
— the last session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the seventh convocation before the early parliamentary elections;
— celebration of the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks in Chernihiv;
— work of specialists of the State Scientific and Testing Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chernihiv region;
— round table meeting in the discussion club "Expert Opinion" on voting of voters with temporarily limited mobility;
— international investment in facilities in the territory of Chernihiv region;
— detection and neutralization of drug crops;
— round table on the topic "Bells of National Memory: The Way of the Cross of the Great Ukrainian Sofia Rusova";
— charity event "Youth for Children" for internally displaced persons from the ATO zone;
— photo exhibition of journalist Mariana Hardy in Lithuania;
— consecration of a church in the village of Zmitni (Koryukiv district).

On video: Donetsk airport; meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; people's deputies; Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman (2014); Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk (2014–2016); address of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the appointment of Stepan Poltorak as Minister of Defense of Ukraine; fragment of the speech of Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk; visit of Petro Poroshenko to Khortytsia Island to meet with military personnel participating in the ATO; presentation of state awards to military personnel; laying flowers at the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Chernihiv; ceremony of consecration of young Cossacks; testing of small arms; Memorial for voters with temporarily limited mobility; Pryluky correctional colony; Chernihiv pre-trial detention center; ballot boxes; meeting of Acting Head of Chernihiv Regional State Administration Serhiy Zhurman with Scandinavian investors; plantation of drug raw materials; burning of cannabis; seizure of narcotic raw materials; a car of the duty unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region; photographs by Sofia Rusova; "Ukrainian Primer" by Sofia Rusova; the book "On the Way of the Cross. The History of the Lindfors-Rusov Family in Correspondence"; students of the National University "Chernihiv Collegium" named after T. G. Shevchenko; photographs by Mariana Hardy; festive service; consecration of the temple; iconostasis.

Commentators: event director Oleg Vasyuta; Chairman of the Regional Council Mykola Zverev (2014–2015); Acting Chairman of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration Serhiy Zhurman; Deputy Head of the State Scientific and Testing Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vitaliy Kuravsky; Executive Director of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Viktor Tarasov; Head of the regional branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Volodymyr Andriychenko; Regional Coordinator of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Alla Lepekha; First Deputy Head of the UMVD in the region, Head of the Investigation Department of the UMVD Oleksandr Lyubarets; Local historian Volodymyr Yermak; Photographer Maryana Hardy (speaks Russian); Deputy of the Semenivka City Council Lyudmila Romanyuk; Chairman of the Veterans Council of the Zmitnivka Village Council Oleksandra Surzhyk; Director of the Zmitnivka School Valentyna Sychevska.

The stories were worked on by: Gordiy Yermak; Oleksandr Sidko; Natalia Levochko; Oksana Ilchuk; Valery Voroshkevich; Natalia Sydorenko; Valery Tsirkun; Alla Kopylovska.