Scandal surrounding the Mazepa monument

Channel One, 2007. The news story highlights the controversial views that arose around the initiative to erect a monument to Ivan Mazepa in the village of Kolomak in the Kharkiv region, where the military council elected him hetman.

On the video: the "Kolomak" sign; the Kolomak River; a memorial sign, in the place of which it was planned to install a monument to Hetman Mazepa; the building of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; a memorial sign to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the Youth Park of Kharkiv; a monument to the heroes of the revolution in Kharkiv; a stand-up by journalist Oleksandr Shvets.

Commented by: Chairman of the Kolomatsk Village Council Kostyantyn Kokaya; member of the New Democracy public movement Dmytro Gubin; Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration (2005–2010) Arsen Avakov.

Oleksandr Shvets and Vitaliy Skorobagatko worked on the plot.