Kravchuk's inauguration: oath in the Verkhovna Rada

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, December 5, 1991. President Leonid Kravchuk takes the oath of office at a ceremonial session of the parliament.

The video shows the session hall, deputies, applause, the blue and yellow flag, the Peresopnytsia Gospel; Ivan Plyushch speaks about the birth of a new state, the election of the president; the G. Verevka Choir performs the hymn “Great, Unified”. Verevka Choir performs “God is Great, One” and the anthem “Ukraine Has Not Yet Died”; Vitaliy Boyko, head of the Central Election Commission, talks about the election results; Leonid Kravchuk takes the oath of office; writer Oles Honchar talks about the people's choice; Halyna Syvolap, a woman from Poltava region, talks about her feelings about the emergence of a new state; Oleksandr Haidamaka, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: about the military's responsibility for the territorial integrity of Ukraine; Leonid Smolyakov, Russian plenipotentiary representative in Ukraine, reads out a government telegram from Russian President Boris Yeltsin to Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk; Dmytro Pavlychko, MP, about the principles of building a new state; Leonid Kravchuk congratulates the audience on independent Ukraine, talks about the world's respect for the will of the Ukrainian people, and the principles of the president's domestic and foreign policy.

Working part of the meeting: Leonid Kravchuk proposes to elect Ivan Plyushch as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada; Oleksandr Moroz, MP: on his feelings about the December 1 elections, the future work of the parliament, and multiparty elections; Ivan Plyushch: on the need to adopt the Constitution and other laws, as well as on multiparty elections. Ivan Plyushch was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.

The video has technical defects.