Audience: Leonid Kravchuk

The program “Audience”, an interview with the first president of independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk. He talks about the referendum of December 1, 1991, the presidential election, a meeting in the Bialowieza Forest with the presidents of Russia and Belarus, the liquidation of the USSR, and relations with Gorbachev.

The video shows archive footage: raising the flag of independent Ukraine, voting in the Verkhovna Rada for independence (360 votes on the scoreboard), footage of the perestroika period, demonstrations under the slogans “Ukraine is leaving the USSR”, tanks on the streets of Moscow, demonstrations under yellow and blue flags, an inscription on a poster “Ukraine will be united!”, Moscow (panorama of Red Square).

Journalist Nadezhda Bazov. The video includes an advertisement.