
Leonid Kuchma and chess player Ruslan Ponomariov
2003, 1 min
First National, 2003. The story covers the meeting of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma with the youngest world chess champion, the youngest world-class grandmaster (as of 2003), Ruslan Ponomariov.
On the video: meeting between Leonid Kuchma and Ruslan Ponomariov; commentary by a chess player (speaking in russian); Ruslan Ponomariov presents a chess piece — a knight; fragment of a conversation between Leonid Kuchma and Ruslan Ponomariov; fragment of the All-Ukrainian charity campaign "Mercy" — the first chess tournament of 2002.
Olga Skotnikova, Vitaliy Melnyk, and Yuriy Zhukov worked on the plot.
Reference: Ruslan Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster, 2002 world chess champion (according to FIDE), and Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine.