Student resistance movement: uniting universities

Student resistance movement: uniting universities

2004, 35 min

Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company, Sumy City Citizens' Association "Public Bureau for Human Rights Protection", film "The Community Can", 2004.

The film describes the course of student protests in the summer of 2004. The students opposed the merger of three universities in Sumy into a single Sumy National University (SNU).

Comments: director of the bureau Oleksandr Takul, participants of the student resistance, head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Volodymyr Shcherban, deputy head of the Regional State Administration Oleh Medunytsia, professor Leonid Melnyk.

The video includes fragments of private archival materials.