Recalling everything after 34 years

[music] Our independence is 34 years old. On a scale the story is actually quite short period of time. But for us, those who lives here and now, it's a huge stretch life.

What have we not experienced? during these years, both crises and revolutions. And so We have been living in it for four years now. full-scale war.

Sometimes we are so shaken that we can A thought creeps in, what is it all for? AND that we are rolling into an abyss. But that's not true.

Today, friends, is the birthday of our independence, I want us to remember, with What they started and how they moved. So that we have understood the path we have traveled 34 years as a nation.

This will be very interesting. My name is Akim Galimov, and this is real. history. [music] Early 90s. On the screens of Santa Barbara and Trick with Anatoly Bondarenko.

They're not measuring your ratings yet. Popularity is when people discuss at work, on public transport and in long and endless queues. Queues, to things, behind everything from sausage to soap or a sock.

The transport is crowded, It rarely goes and is not available everywhere. Before the appearance minibuses for a few more years. Young hums: "I'm going to drown myself in the river Deep and Underground Kindra".

Jokes songs by Andriy Mykolaychuk. In the gamants Ukrainians then had Soviet rubles and stacks of paper coupons. It such a transitional currency introduced by the National Bank temporarily to overcome the cash shortage, because after the declaration of independence of Ukraine the Russian central bank no longer supplied their rubles to our territories.

None legal exchanges. Dollars are bought and sold underground by boys of a bandit type, which are predicted near markets. The course is predatory.

at the end 402 coupons per dollar, and in 1995 117,000 for 1 but that's if you're lucky. More often people were fooled by currency scammers, so called throwing. The point was in the substitution money.

The fraudster took a bill from a person, for example, $100 supposedly to see if real, and then crumpled and rolled banknote. At that moment, an accomplice ran up.

and shouted something like: "Police, let's run!" The person was allegedly returned her folded bill and quickly disappeared. When a person recovered, then she saw that in the hands of It's no longer 100, but 1 dollar.

Now like this blatant robbery can be seen only at the cinema. I solemnly swear to the people of Ukraine. December 5, 1991.

inauguration of the first President of independent Ukraine. In general Back then, in 1991, events were moving very quickly. The Soviet Union was living out its last days.

IN August, an attempt is being made in Moscow coup d'état. Zolotniki block the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev at his dacha in Crimea, and already the next morning on the radio and TV channels announce the creation of the so-called State Emergency Committee state. It was the August coup.

And on August 24 Ukrainian parliament adopts declaration about independence. December 1st is passing an all-Ukrainian referendum, in which over 90% of Ukrainians say they support independence so all in all a little more than three months. A sovereign state separately.

Maybe something We will live better. And I think that eventually we will have everything good. At least, not worse than in any of the European countries. Did you vote? Voices.

Thank you for independence. Why? Because that's the only way out of this swamps. And now the first one is taking the oath president. In the hall, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada Soviets, most communists.

Kravchuk holds his hand on the constitution, but next to it Peresopnytsia Gospel. Friends, a unique monument of our history. The Peresopnytsky Gospel.

This is the original. To be honest, this is my second time in my life. I work with this book all my life. And always, when it is opened, when it is taken out of special storage, you just feel it, like ants running over your skin, that's why that, well, it's just unusual, An incredible, unique artifact.

The Peresopnytsky Gospel was written mid-15th century from 1556 until 1561. This book was written in Peresopnytsky Monastery in the Rivne region. What is unique about this book? In that, that this is in fact the first translation of the Gospel into the old Ukrainian language, which was close to the spoken language at that time here, on our land.

The pages of this Books are parchment. Well, actually in decorated axes of incredible beauty miniatures are gilding. So, well, the value of that book, then and now, well, we can only imagine.

Swear Leonid Kuchma started with this Gospel. Well, this tradition started with him. To Kravchuk swore an oath on the Constitution, and on the constitution of the Soviet Ukraine. Because when it happened Kravchuk's oath, then the Constitution independent Ukraine did not yet exist.

Interestingly, in the same AUNT where she was this is the Constitution of Soviet Ukraine, there was also a declaration about independence. Well, since then, everyone Presidents swear on this book.

It the whole procedure, when here from the storage under This book is being taken out with great security. a special motorcade to the Verkhovna Rada, where The president is actually being sworn in.

So this is a tradition that dates back to the 15th century century and this is also part of our history. An extremely important part of our history.

Mr. Timo, I saw you get this one. book out of the box and how much effort you put into it applied. How much does it weigh? The book weighs 9 kg 300 g. 9 kg 300 g.

Wow. How much is this? How many sheets are there? Here 482 sheets. Aha. As we know, the Peresopnytsky Gospel is were kept in the library for a certain time Hetman Ivan Mazepa. Ugh.

There is a record here that it belonged to to his library. Here it's like a stamp there, Well, this is the so-called ownership record. Can you imagine, friends, well, that's what it is, you know, what is the importance of these artifacts when Can you imagine that we are leafing through it today? and once it was leafed by Ivan Mazepa.

This one Ivan Mazepa leafed through the book. Oh, you see, there is a recording. Ioan Mazepa, his army. Aha.

It's royal. His Majesty the King Zaporozhye Library. Here, listen, well, actually 5 centuries, right? just when you imagine it, it half a millennium. This half-millennium book.

And she's in such, well, wonderful condition is preserved. It has retained its originality, retained its integrity. And, uh, I I hope it remains the same.

will reach our descendants. So, Ukrainians won their state and elected president. In spite of the economic crisis that has been going on since the USSR, poverty, inflation, crime, in people there was a great determination to build one's own country. In 1992, the Verkhovna Rada approves the musical version of the hymns.

Text, However, it was only agreed upon in 2003. Yes dragged on for a long time through the second verse, in which has the words: "Let us stand, brothers, in battle bloody from San to Don". Xiang is river in Ukraine and Poland.

And the Don is a river in Russia. For the author of the poem Not yet dead Pavlo Chubynsky's Ukraine then in 1862 year from Xi'an to the Don meant simply lands where ethnic Ukrainians live. But in this could be considered an encroachment Ukraine on the territory of other states.

So in in politics and society continued discussions regarding the text of the anthem. Eventually, decided, as the national anthem, approve only the first verse and chorus. On the first anniversary of independence in 1992 Kyiv-Mohyla University is solemnly opened academy after a break of 175 years.

Mohylanka was closed by the Russian Empire government back in 1817, because the empire was not going to support creation of the Ukrainian national elites. All gifted young people had to go for education, well, of course, to Russia.

The first students of the restored Mohyla University welcomed by all of Kyiv. Here is a photo of the walk Andrew's Day and the consecration of the first 229 students enrolled. Meanwhile, the life of Ukrainians at that time was heavy.

In 1993, the economic crisis reached at its peak. Prices were rising every day, inflation exceeded 1000%. Salary delayed for months.

To pay with farmers for the grown crop, the government starts printing money, just those coupon-banknotes, which I mentioned on beginning. Then they were made by abroad, and when planes from Europe brought 1.5 trillion coupons, hyperinflation reached a level that even difficult to comprehend: 10206%.

It used to be that a cup of coffee in the morning could cost 28,000, and in the evening it's already 30 or 32. And to pay, for example, for meat, people took out hundred thousand banknotes.

The authorities tried to launch the process privatization by citizens of the state property. It was assumed that everyone would be able to receive a portion of state property for 1,500 000 coupons. For this amount, the following were issued: called vouchers.

But from this, well, away. Nothing worked out. Privatization was not prepared. People didn't know what to do with these to do with paper Many still have them. lying around somewhere in old envelopes.

The farmers were paid, but the miners were not. On Miners' riots begin in Donbas. The authorities could not fix anything. Crisis were dissolved, announcing for 1994 early parliamentary and presidential elections.

Rescue from new reality tens of thousands of people They started looking in sects. People of the older generation century are remembered by hanging everywhere in cities and villages, to cry with a woman in white, who called herself Maria Davy Christ. And the people of Kyiv remembered the goals well.

crowds of people in Bily, who in the summer and in the fall of 1993 were moving around the center of Kyiv and calling themselves White brotherhood. These people refused to family and past, given to leaders sects all their money, transferred to them real estate and cars.

Maria Davy Christ by passport Maria Tsvigun announced that on November 24, 1993 the world will end. Therefore, all members of the White brotherhoods should burn themselves in Sofia Kyiv.

At this time, Ukrainian law enforcement officers have been monitoring for over a year sect. They have already set up borders near Sofia and arrests began. As only members of the White Brotherhood tried break into the cathedral, 600 were detained sectarians.

Many of them later long were treated in psychiatric hospitals. Sect leaders Maria Tsvigun and her husband Yuri Krivonohovac, who called himself Ioan Swami, tried and imprisoned. Its for four years, and Krivonogov for seven.

The press wrote at the time that during recruitment followers of the couple were involved in strong psychotropic substances. Also went rumors that Krivonogov himself worked in in secret KGB laboratories, where he developed psychotropic weapon.

None of this has been proven, but just imagine, White The brotherhood then had a total of 80 members. 000 followers.

In March 1994, Ukrainians elected the most diverse Supreme Court in history I agree. The elections were entirely in favor of majoritarian system. As a result, in Representatives of 15 gathered in the session hall different political parties, but most were still non-partisan.

And during summer elections of 1994, Ukraine received new president Leonid Kuch. Shortly everyone learned about independent Ukraine sports fans of the world. These were the first Olympic Games, at which Ukrainian athletes represented their the state.

Norwegian Lily Hamer is captivated applauded 16-year-old figure skater Oksana Bayu, who became our first Olympic champion, winning gold. And in the summer world record this year.

Ukrainian Serhiy Bubka pole vaulted 6 m 14 cm. His record for jumping from "Just the Sky" was beaten with a pole all the way through 26 years old. In 2020, Ukrainians also announced themselves to the world scientists.

In 1995, he flew into space Ukrainian artificial satellite Sich-1. His task was scientific observations and experiments. Satellite Ukrainian launch vehicle launched into orbit Cyclone 3.

Both her and the spacecraft itself developed in Dnipro at the design department Southern bureau. And the factory made it Yuzhmash. [music] The second half of the 90s.

Ukrainian streets are becoming safer. To law enforcement officers although there were many questions, but still This isn't the early 90s anymore. People gradually forgetting about the thieves of winter fur hats that could just be on the go to tear it off a passerby's head and run away.

By the way, one did about the same thing former Ukrainian president. In general It's not scary to go out in the evenings. But the biggest evolution in the next five years in a cell phone.

In 1996, these were expensive things, devices inaccessible to most people. Yes and The connection itself costs at least a hundred dollars per month. And in 2000, mobile phones All the peasants could already afford it.

And not just phones, but even exits from mobile to the internet. Appear and new TV channels. Screens are filled with advertising successful and not so successful. It wasn't switched then, and watched from start to finish for a few times and bought advertised products.

The biggest advertising failure awaited the simple bottled water called vomit. Well, with in English blue water. And the audience all the time we heard vomiting and selling this The water never left.

The first McDonald's opens in Kyiv near the Lukyanivska metro station. By the way, the same one that is now most often suffers from Russian shelling. The historic event of the opening occurred on May 24, 1997.

That try a hamburger, people are standing by long queues. No longer calculated with packs of coupons, and with hryvnias, a new full-fledged Ukrainian currency. On There are huge currency exchange rate signs on the streets.

It The first exchangers invite customers. As the first official exchange offices have just opened points, currency notes were thrown somewhere and disappeared by themselves. These bills, friends, can really perceive as a symbol of the affirmation of our independence.

I have the first ones in my hands. hryvnias that were printed and launched in circulation in Ukraine. Well, here's the whole stand.

We are in the museum now. National Bank of Ukraine. It is interesting that when the hryvnia appeared in wallets Ukrainians, this meant that in fact this The period of wild inflation is ending. AND at the same time, by the way, it was established official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the dollar.

Well, now many of us remember the dollar eight, but how about a dollar bill for 1 UAH 76 kopecks. This was the first course, the first official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the dollar. 1 gr.

76 kopecks. Well, here on the stand, that interestingly, the first hryvnias were ordered at all in Canada. And these, uh, banknotes, which went into circulation, they were printed in Canada.

And then later print has already been launched in Kyiv at capacity our banknote and mint. Interestingly, in 1992 they started the first hryvnias were printed and then there was This banknote is printed with a denomination of 200 UAH. But it did not go into circulation.

AND nine whole years, friends, nine It was stored in a special storage facility for years. Why? Because, well, at that point when The hryvnia went to the people, 200 UAH, well, that's it was such a huge amount that it simply could not there was a need for such a bill. So only in 2001 did these 200 UAH come out of special storage and went to the people.

Well, in general, when we came here, the museum staff showed us more several interesting artifacts. Theirs actually rarely shown, but we have real stories showed.

Look, this is a letter from printed hryvnias that have never been were in circulation. They were also printed in Canada 100 UAH with Taras Shevchenko. You see, such an interesting green The bill, like a green dollar, is a little similar.

And also another interesting artifact is this this one aa matrix, which is called by this word intaglio. Intaglio.

Here is this, ah, metal one, you see, this matrix came just from Canada and it was she who printed our first hryvnias. You see, here is the denomination of 2 UAH.

Also now an exhibit in the National Museum Bank of Ukraine. But in reality, reform 1996, monetary reform, it was not brought to an end. Because if you Do you remember our episode about history? Ukrainian money, then we told, that was supposed to go into circulation together with the hryvnia Ukrainian coin with the name Shagy.

AND actually the sketches were developed by Ukrainian artist Vasyl Lopata. And they even went to the factory to have them printed. There, well, they were engraved the first such trial, er, proof coins.

But then suddenly for some reason the Verkhovna Rada approves a different name for our coins and Instead of shags, they print kopecks. Today no one knows why this actually happened, why did this replacement occur? Well, everyone, with whom we spoke, claim that in principle without political will, that is, without some instructions from management states, well, it was impossible to change that this name.

So these pennies are for us somehow, you see, they planted them on top instead of ours Ukrainian historical steps. The next important step in establishing the state has become a constitutional night, that is the night the constitution was adopted.

Work over the text of the basic law continued several years. And so on the morning of June 27, 1996 year, the deputies gathered to finally approve it. However, all day made edits, held debates and disputes, did not have time and remained face to face.

The process was openly boycotted. communists, who were then in parliament a lot. They wanted special status for Crimea. Now that we've done that dozens of episodes about Russian influence throughout our history, their agents and I can, with great luck.

probability to assume that the indication Communist MP on the status of Crimea given from the Kremlin. Ultimately, a compromise found in the fact that Crimea will be provided autonomy within Ukraine.

And so the communists voted for approval Constitution. Voted at 9:18 am already June 28th. Now the legal basis our state, its sovereignty and territorial integrity were secured legislatively. In this hall, I think for the first time Ukrainian language sounds.

Because of this I want to congratulate everyone present on this, uh, well, with this event, because I think that uh in the American control center The Ukrainian language has not yet been heard in flight. IN Ukrainians with pride and admiration watched these shots from the American cape Canaveral.

When the first cosmonaut Leonid Kadenyuk together with colleagues from other countries walked to the shuttle Columbia, mentally with him was all of Ukraine. And after 16 days space flight he was met at home as a hero.

This same year, Ukraine and Russia completed division of the Black Sea Fleet. The way it is was done, laid a mine of slow motion actions for decades. We talked about this is in a separate issue of real history here is this link.

If very In short, Ukraine got 18.3% Black Sea Fleet of the USSR, Russia 81.7%. This unequal division was explained by the fact that Ukraine allegedly wrote off the ships part of the debt for Russian gas. Before how to transfer ships to Ukraine, Russian sailors by order of the deputy Commander of the Russian fleet, Admiral Igor Kasatonov was put out of action, everything, what they achieved, and plundered everything they had were able to bear it.

So the basis for Ukrainian Black Sea Fleet was able to become only 40 ships, which at first It took a long time to repair. Then, in In 1997, Kuchma and Yeltsin agreed that Ukrainian Sevastopol will be the center basing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet to 2017.

Yes, Ukraine received its territory of the Russian Trojan horse that worked in 2014. But then the future was unknown, and these agreements were considered an achievement of Ukraine, because the Russians did not even manage to wrestle the entire Black Sea Fleet, nor expel the naval forces of Ukraine and Sevastopol, nor to obtain ownership military towns on the territory Ukrainian Crimea. Although Moscow does this I really wanted everything.

Next, 1998 The country was shaken by a political assassination. Banker Vadym Hetman was shot dead. one of the initiators of the introduction of the vulture. Some experts argue that if not there was the assassination of Vadym Hetman in 1998 year, then Russia would not have attacked Ukraine in 2014.

And there is a certain logic here. To understand her, let's first see who this is Vadym Getman. He founded the first in Ukraine has a commercial bank that was called Bank Ukraine. In 1992 Vadim Hetman became the head of the department National Bank of Ukraine.

It is in this period, a decision was made to introduction of national currencies. And the hetman was very actively involved this question. Six months later he created Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange and led it, resigning from his post the head of the NBU.

In 1994 Vadym Hetman was elected as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada and participated in the adoption Ukrainian Constitution. He was very influential politician.

Now we can call him a pro-Ukrainian lobbyist in parliament, where the communists dominated. Under time of the next elections in 1998 Vadim The Hetman again ran as an independent candidate in Talnivskyi district Cherkasy region and lost. However, there was convinced that this happened because mechanization at polling stations.

The Hetman submitted lawsuit to the Talnivskyi District Court with demanding the annulment of the election results. AND The trial was scheduled to take place on April 23.

meeting. However, on April 22 at 8 p.m. he is killed in the elevator of a high-rise building, where he lived with his family. Performers The murders were allegedly discovered in 2001.

A certain Serhiy Kuliv confesses to crime and names accomplices. Although it the story does not match completely with details of the murder, Kuliv is sentenced to lifelong. But, friends, the most interesting thing is happening in a few years.

Serhiy Kulv states, who slandered himself and others. However, the matter is like this and do not review. Here you can already think about different hypotheses.

But let's Let's return to the versions of the reasons for the murder. IN There were several investigations: political activities, including possible confrontation with the then Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, and also financial activities. At the moment In 1998, Vadym Hetman and his comrades led almost all Ukrainian banks.

And they didn't arrange it. big Russian business that wanted to crush them under oneself. The answer is that actually happened, we obviously we get only after falling the current Russian regime. Of course one thing: Vadym Hetman was very uncomfortable Russia.

Like Vyacheslav Chornovil, he is gone less than a year after the murder Hetman. The official version of the death Chornovil remains an accident for now. Allegedly, the politician's car on the highway under Boryspil crashed into a Kamaz with a trailer.

But, you know, considering Vadim's death Hetman, later the poisoning of Yushchenko, all these special operations of the Kremlin to eliminate real pro-Ukrainian figures who could lead Ukraine to another side from Russia side, I personally don't believe in simple accidents. In addition, in 2021 one of those who investigated the circumstances of this accident, former deputy general prosecutor Mykola Golomsha, stated that Chornovil did not die as a result of a traffic accident, but He was killed.

Allegedly after a collision with Kamaz Chornovil and the driver were still alive, but someone finished them off with a few blows brass knuckles to the back of the head. However, the official The investigation found no evidence of this.

More like this. During the exhumation, which conducted 12 years after the death policy, experts could not clearly determine what exactly caused the injuries heads and whether they are related to the accident. A few months later in October 1999 presidential candidates were appointed in Ukraine elections and Vyacheslav Chornovil could them to run.

So the truth about this too unexpected death is yet to come find out. Meanwhile, at the next presidential elections Leonid wins again in the elections in Ukraine Hairy fur cap. Let's step aside a bit now.

ordinary life. In those years on appear on Ukrainian roads Deulanos and modernized Tavria, cars available for purchase Many banks give out good loans. They are being produced in Ukraine by a joint Ukrainian-Korean enterprise AutoZAZ DEO.

Representatives of the Western businesses are increasingly considering Ukraine as a new platform for your investments. In 1999 year, Ukrainians are looking with interest new European money euro.

They are a little more expensive than the dollar and in exchanges for 1 € euro they ask for up to 6 UAH. But people buy them are in no hurry, because the European switched to the new currency very gradually.

In neighboring Russia, it declares itself Prime Minister Putin. He is indicative fighting the so-called Chechen terrorism, which is most likely itself and organized. He promises to wet the Chechens in the toilets.

I and we will soak them in the toilet, in the end. And the second Chechen war begins. IN Ukraine is currently a scandal for the whole world. Having taken more than 300 million dollars from Ukrainian budget is running away Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.

Its detained in the United States with Panamanian passport. Lazarenko served his sentence eight years in an American prison for money laundering and now lives with his family in the United States. From stealing to Ukraine Only over $10 million was returned.

They were transferred to Ukraine by Switzerland in 2000. Last summer, the Ministry of Justice The United States stated that is trying to confiscate from Lazarenko for Ukraine 250 million dollars. This money arrested in various countries and courts There have been over 20 cases against them years, where the rest of what was stolen by Lazarenko and is still unknown.

Back in 2000 in Ukraine abolish the death penalty. The first one whom Instead of losing, they sentenced him to life imprisonment, serial maniac Anatoly Onoprienko. Since 1989 until 1996, when he was detained, Onuprienko brutally murdered 52 people.

He died in prison in 2013 due to a heart attack insufficiency. Meanwhile, another political crisis in Ukraine murder. September 16, 2000 disappears opposition journalist Georgy Gongadze.

On November 2nd, his headless body found in the Tarashchansky forest. 28 November from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada in accused of murdering journalist President Leonid Kuchma. This is what the leader says Socialist Party Oleksandr Moroz.

AND to confirm, lets listen audio recordings. They were allegedly made by a major State Guard Mykola Melnychenko in Kuchma's office. The records show that Kuchma personally gave the order to kill Gongadze.

Kuchma says the tapes are fake and he doesn't gave a criminal order, but society is literally exploding. On mass protests on the streets Ukraine without Kuchma.

The state begins political crisis that weakens Ukrainian president, but still not removes him from power. In return Vice Prime Minister Yulia is gaining popularity Tymoshenko.

She positions herself as reformer. says he is struggling with corruption and opposes the powerful the energy lobby of Surkis Medvedchuk, which sits on gas streams as intermediaries and buys up regional energy companies. 19 In January 2001, President Kuchma announced his dismisses Yulia Tymoshenko from office by decree, and on February 13 she is detained and put in jail Lukyanivskyi pre-trial detention center.

For Ukrainians Yulia Tymoshenko then became a symbol of the fight against corruption and one of the main faces of the action Ukraine without Kuchma. Pensioners announced about raising funds to pay for Tymoshenko bailed to be released from Pretrial detention center.

From time to time under Lukyanovsky people organized actions against her support. Then Tymoshenko spent behind bars for 43 days. She was unexpectedly fired.

Head of the Pechersk District Court Mykola Zamkovenko, for which he himself received accusations of official negligence and A very realistic prison sentence is two years. Later Zamkovenko became a popular MP from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

Here such an interesting detail. Tymoshenko herself tried to arrest again, but The Supreme Court overturned this decision. 16 September after more than six months prosecution Prosecutor General's Office filming with Yulia Tymoshenko all accusation.

The Prime Minister at that time was Viktor Yushchenko, but right in the midst of this story his entire government resigned. The parliamentary majority, which was controlled by President Kuchma, voted no confidence in the team Yushchenko.

Yushchenko's Cabinet worked on everything 16 months, but managed to win over the people image of a reformer. And Yushchenko himself after this resignation he became very a popular politician in Ukraine.

23 June 2001 at Boryspil Airport The plane with the Pope lands. With John Paul I on board. This visit then interrupted all other information drives. Dad met hundreds of thousands of people.

For all dozens of places where he is staying TV cameras, photographers, journalists At the same time, they went crazy in Moscow. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II stated, that this is an encroachment on the non-original Orthodox territory.

Pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine was given interviews that the visit the popes of Rome did not agree with Orthodox churches in Ukraine. Natalia was the most active then.

Vitrenko, if you remember that one. Not only did they come to listen to the pontiff Catholic believers. They were even going to unbelievers, because he was still unquestionable moral authority for everyone.

June 24 at the Chaika complex in Over 150 people prayed with the Pope in Kyiv 000 people. Twice as many believers came for the liturgy on June 26 in Lviv. Well, and more at the end of 2001, they summed up All-Ukrainian population census.

Us then, friends, it was 48 000. The majority are urban residents 67.2%. There were 7.4% women more than men. [music] Early 2000s.

For the first time since the late 80s A baby boom is looming in Ukraine. Cities are growing right before our eyes. New Houses are being built at a breakneck pace.

Ukrainians are massively taking out loans for brand new apartments, because the hryvnia is stable. You have to pay about 5 UAH per dollar. 30 kopecks.

The rate fluctuates within several pennies in total. Boryspil Airport sends charters to Egypt in large numbers and Turkey. Ordinary Ukrainians finally can afford to vacation on foreign resorts.

[music] Tragedy at the aviation festival in Sknylov near Lviv and is still considered the largest disaster in the history of air shows. While performing an aerobatics maneuver The Su-27 aircraft was too much in a half-loop low, caught on a tree and fell into crowd of spectators.

77 people died in including 28 children. 250 people received wound. Then there was an investigation. The causes of the accident are the Prosecutor General's Office called the poor organization, preparation and hosting a show.

Prison sentences for this received 10 people. The longest term received by pilot Volodymyr Toponar, 14 years. His partner Yuriy Yegorov was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Later these terms were shortened. However, the pilots never pleaded guilty in this tragedy. Also, six years in prison received the commander of the 14th aviation Corps Major General Anatoly Tritsyakov and 5 years as a flight director from the ground Lieutenant Colonel Yuriy Yatsyuk. Meanwhile Ukraine is experiencing a new scandal throughout world.

This time with very bad ones consequences for us. United States, referring to Melnychenko's films, Ukraine is accused of selling out to Iraq radio reconnaissance stations Kulchuga. Saddam Hussein's Iraq for that moment was an enemy of the United States number one.

And although there was no other evidence, America immediately froze the financial aid to Ukraine and threatened serious sanctions. Leonid Kuchma became a person nongrata in the West.

It is now clear, that the kulchugi are a special operation of the Kremlin, which aimed to tear Ukraine away from west and directed towards Moscow. But It is still unknown whether the Russians planned and wiretapping in Kuchma's office, or just took advantage of the situation.

This same In 2002, Leonid became the head of the administration. Kuchma becomes Viktor Medvedchuk, whom we now we know who Putin's godfather is and what played a significant role in the future fate Ukraine. Well, at that moment the reputation our country on the world stage after the scandal with chain mail was significantly is undermined and Ukraine is gradually drifting into Russia's side.

2003 began with the arrival in Kyiv of Russian President Putin. At the end of January, the then Ukrainian leader Leonid Kuchma signed with him important intergovernmental agreement, preparation for which lasted for years. It was a contract about the state border between Russia and Ukraine, which finally on the 12th year of independence defined the land borders of our state.

Also this document confirmed that the Sea of ​​Azov and The Kerch Strait is internal waters both countries. It's been about eight months, and the Russians are trying these borders.

In the middle of the Kerch Strait There is an island called Tuzla with an area of ​​approximately 3.5 km. During the Soviet era, it was part of the Crimean Peninsula.

region that was part of the Soviet Union Ukraine. And after the proclamation independence, the island became an integral part part of Ukraine. Suddenly in September 2003 Russia begins building a dam that will connect Tuzla with Russian territory, Krasnodar Territory.

At the same time Russian media at one point start to call Tuzla not an island, but a spit, historical Russian land. Now experts say that back then, in 2003, Russia was checking Ukraine's reaction and the international community on the likely territorial conflict.

Active phase The conflict around Tuzla lasted for about month, from the end of September to the end of October 2003. And only when Ukraine pulled troops to Tuzla and demonstrated that ready to use force, construction they stop.

As per the textbook all stages have been completed information special operation: concealment, ignoring, denial, using fabricated excuses, shifting responsibility to switchman. In the case of Tuzla, the Russians announced that they would fill the dam with personal on the initiative of the Governor of Krasnodar region to improve the environment.

In the center They supposedly knew nothing about it, but when When they found out, they immediately stopped drinking. In general, to the island of Tuzla for Russians there were a few meters left, but in a few Years ago, the embankment was washed away by the waves.

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We continue filming today. our episode about the Great Luh. And now arrived see how this is transformed territory. In fact, we are on south of Zaporozhye.

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Join us. Let's create real story together. Autumn 2004. The race for presidential elections. The struggle between the then prime minister, pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych and the party leader Our Ukraine, by pro-European Viktor Yushchenko. In September it becomes known about Yushchenko's poisoning.

November 21 from the podium Yushchenko, who miraculously survived, accuses the authorities of involvement in poisoning. In December, international medical experts document that Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin.

You can see more about this in our interview with Viktor Yushchenko. AND These footage can still be viewed here. endlessly.

Yusenko Yulko. September 24 in Ivano-Frankivsk Yanukovych is being pelted with eggs by the crowd. He, It seems like he's even losing consciousness, although the egg did not cause any harm to him caused. But still a candidate hospitalized for several hours.

Yanukovych accuses Yushchenko's entourage and nationalists, but in reality from Even supporters were critical of the incident regionals. October 31st is happening first round of elections.

Since no one received more than 50% of the vote, they announce second round. It passed on November 21 and in just three days the CEC announces results according to which Victor wins Yanukovych. 49.5% votes.

Yushchenko, according to the CEC, allegedly gaining 46.6%. At the same time, they did not take into account at all a huge number of complaints about violations during the voting. Particularly alarming improbably high activity voters in Donbas, more than 95%.

Hundreds of thousands of people after the announcement results of the second round begin gather at Independence Square in Kyiv. Thus began the Orange Maidan.

Do you remember how the squares of Ukrainian cities painted in orange colors? AND maybe you wore an orange scarf back then or tape. They came to Ukraine correspondents from all over the world to show the Orange Revolution.

The Orange Revolution ended with that the court has ordered a third round presidential elections, in which Viktor Yushchenko won absolutely honestly. But then Ukrainians took to the Maidan and took a step towards real democracy.

AND eventually we became closer to civilized world. A reason to be proud that year, singer Ruslana also gave, who won at Eurovision. Do you remember these? wild dancing? This was the first victory Ukraine at Eurovision.

A football player Andriy Shevchenko brought his the first golden ball. He became Footballer of the Year in Europe. And there was also Summer Olympics in Athens.

Then The Ukrainian team brought 22 medals: eight gold, five silver and nine bronze. 2005 begins with inauguration, as they said then, of the people's President Viktor Yushchenko on the Maidan Independence. Political landscape and in general, the atmosphere in the country is completely changed.

After a decade of rule the old political elite, which emerged even from communist diapers, first appeared the spirit of Europe, other values. I heard that even the traffic policemen back then, we had one once such a structure as the traffic police, for several months they stopped taking bribes, and then strange suicides of representatives began of the previous ruling team.

Literally in front of allegedly shot himself on New Year's Day Minister of Transport and Communications of the team Kuchma's Heorhiy Kirpa, and on March 4 former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Kravchenko. Of course, the official version both deaths are suicides, but the circumstances in both cases looked doubtful.

Especially Yuri's death Kravchenko, who allegedly shot himself in the head twice. There were rumors then that both were shot because there were too many knew. Then the whole country watched, how the promised changes and the state begin restores justice.

Started a legal process that resulted in declared the privatization of a large Kryvorizhstal enterprises. In 2003, his bought by oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov and his son-in-law Kuchma Viktor Pinchuk without a transparent competition and for pennies.

The trial was broadcast on all nationwide live broadcasts TV channels. Kryvorizhstal returned to the state, and in October the company was sold in the privatization competition. Indian Metal Steel company gave for Kryvyi Rih steel $4.8 billion.

It's around 5, after times more than what Pinchuk and Akhmetov. Childbirth payment in Ukraine is becoming one of the largest in Europe. It rises from 360 UAH to 8500.

Back then it was $1,700. This step, like overall improvement of living conditions, population perceives it as an increase in birth rate. If, for example, a child was born in 2001 babies, then in 2012 almost 521,000.

In In 2006, it was hardly found in Ukraine would be a person who would not be aware that The Ukrainian national team made it to the championship world of football. For the first time in its history.

Everyone from schoolchildren to pensioners glued to the TV and watched, How Ukrainians reach the quarterfinals. [music] The world has entered a period of financial crisis.

The hryvnia has fallen sharply in price. Instead of 5.5 UAH You had to pay eight for a dollar. It seems like a small thing now, but then... after 10 years of stable exchange rate, all this it was scary.

Especially if housing loans, car or business was tied to the exchange rate dollar. Along with the global crisis, the world smartphone revolution. It turns out, The phone can also be used as computer.

The legendary band Queen went on a European tour and wrapped up to Ukraine. The very first city that met a musical legend, was Kharkiv. In November 2007, tragic news from Donetsk.

The biggest accident at the mine there throughout Ukrainian history. Because of methane explosion at Zasyadka mine killed 100 miners and one doctor, dozens injured. And literally in two weeks there is a new explosion there.

Five dead rescuers and again dozens injured. This tragedy attracted general attention to hazardous working conditions Ukrainian miners. and to the high mortality in mines.

It turned out that for example, for 2006 in Ukrainian 170 miners died in the mines. And in Ukrainian mines are considered to be the the most dangerous. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, extraordinary parliamentary elections.

Head of the new Arseniy Yatsenyuk becomes the president of parliament. Julia Tymoshenko heads the government. Julia, Julia.

But after a while it becomes clear that the democratic camp is literally being torn apart internal disputes. Conflicts around distribution of ministerial portfolios, voting disputes, mutual accusations of corruption.

Becomes noticeable conflict between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko. October 23, 2008 year the European Parliament recognizes the Holodomor in Ukraine has been facing a crime against humanity for 32-33 years humanity and expresses condolences to the Ukrainian people. From the very beginning of the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko tragedy is given great importance.

In fact, some of the Ukrainians at that time learned the truth about the famine for the first time. Many efforts by both state institutions and The media was aimed at showing to the whole world.

Artificially starved and purposefully to subdue Ukrainian peasants who did not accept Soviet occupation. Friends, we are now in The National Museum of the Holodomor and Genocide.

And I wanted to show you a very important and even a unique thing for our history. This is a multi-volume national book of remembrance. victims of the famine.

Dozens worked on its creation thousands of people. How did it all start? In 2007 year, then-President Viktor Yushchenko gives tasks to local administrations collect data on all, even the smallest villages of Ukraine, information about the dead from hunger. This was, of course, a decision belated, but still it was restoration of justice for millions of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Soviet regime.

Already in In 2008, the National Museum was built here. Museum of the Holodomor Genocide. Well, it's in first of all. The second one was frozen in Yanukovych's time and is still unfinished.

Interestingly, the employees of this museum they say that the data on victims famine still affects them, and they continue to add to this book. This work never stops for a day.

Reforms also reached education. In 2007 School graduates wrote the final exam for the first time. Then the system was only tested, but since 2008 were admitted to universities exclusively for the results of the external examination. And it really broke a long-standing practice that has been going on since USSR.

Admission for bribes. In the following years the system was improved so that there was no no chance of cheating on the external examination or getting some kind of hint. And you must agree that thanks to these changes we now have in Ukraine a relatively fair system of admission to higher.

Back in 2008, Ukraine finally joined to the World Trade Organization. Negotiations about this lasted for several years. This significantly revived the economy, as it gave simultaneous improvement of terms of trade with over 150 countries around the world.

Ukrainian goods got much better chances to enter world markets. However, 2008 was far from the best year for trade and finance, because it is The global financial crisis erupted. Hryvnia from stable five to the dollar falls to eight.

Thousands of Ukrainians who took out loans for apartments in dollars, were simply in a hurry. Pay these loans became impossible. Salaries are not rose, and many because of the crisis lost his job altogether.

People for weeks picketed the National Bank building with demands leave the old one for mortgage loans hryvnia exchange rate. However, it didn't help.

But To be fair, I'll say the credit is in Currency is always a risk. In July 2008 in The Ecumenical Patriarch was welcomed in Kyiv Bartholomew. This was the first visit.

patriarch for the last 350 years. He arrived to celebrate the 1020th anniversary of Baptism of Russia. Actually then Orthodox Church of Moscow The patriarchate seems to have privatized this holiday.

The heads were not invited to the ceremony. Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Do you remember the naked fewchat promotions that stripped naked in protest, and in the most unexpected places.

Exactly The Fem movement was founded in 2008. Then and in next years show the action with their participation added ratings to the releases for a reason news. But probably the most entertaining Ukrainians then the Klitschko brothers.

In 2008 Ukrainian boxers gathered all possible championship belts in all possible ways versions and simultaneously became champions world. Those were golden times.

Then the last name Klitschko was associated with victories and with the pride of the country, not with the land grabber in Kyiv and corruption scandals. The following year, 2009, began with the cessation of Russia transits gas to Europe via Ukrainian gas transportation system.

It It wasn't that unexpected. Gaseous The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continued literally from the first days of Ukrainian independence, and coming to power in Ukraine of the pro-European Yushchenko only took it to a new level. Russians started completely without reason accuse Ukraine of stealing from the pipe gas destined for Europeans.

AND still tried to underestimate the cost of pumping of its gas through the Ukrainian pipe. It was gas blackmail to pressure us. For what? In order to finally make weaker and more dependent on Moscow.

Europe froze, pressured Ukraine to and settled the gas dispute. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is going to Moscow to negotiate with Putin. After all, she signs an agreement that everyone criticized successive governments for all subsequent years.

And in In principle, there was nothing wrong with that. The price of gas is not important. was too high, so also the installed the huge volumes that Ukraine committed to buying. This is the so-called take it or pay formula.

That is, Ukraine or bought a fairly large amount of gas, or didn't buy and then paid a fine. In Julia's own words Volodymyrivna, Everything is gone. A new attack in the fall.

In Ukraine register the first fatal cases dangerous strain of influenza H1N1. Other The name is swine flu. World health organizations announce pandemic.

October 30 Viktor Yushchenko convenes the National Security and Defense Council, where they find out that the Services health care of Ukraine on time responded to threats. Overcome the pandemic It doesn't work quickly.

Already in November They register the death of 10 people per day. People panicked and started to rake everything that was available in pharmacies. Antiviral means, most of which are common fuflomycin, ran out in a couple of days.

It was even difficult to buy a simple mask. impossible. Viktor Yushchenko appealed for international help in the fight against the flu pandemic. A list of necessary items was compiled drugs and equipment that the state needed.

Then they thought that the only drug that saves from this virus - Tamiflu. And the Tymoshenko government in urgently purchases a large batch of these medicines. But soon Julia herself Tymoshenko is accused of artificial inciting panic in the interests of large pharmaceutical companies.

By by some studies, only in October In 2009, Ukrainians purchased in pharmacies antiviral drugs for over 1. billion UAH Eventually, in the spring the epidemic will go away.

decline. According to statistics from complications 1,125 people died of swine flu then. Just so you understand the scale of the panic, I will say that in our country, on average, About 100,000 people die from heart attacks each year. half a million Ukrainians.

Meanwhile, in the center of Donetsk on August 29 In 2009, Donbass was opened. Came to the opening ceremony world-famous American to perform singer Beyonce, who specially for interrupted her world tour. I think Akhmetov suggested to her normal fee.

In many ways. I met in different numbers from two to 7 million dollars for a performance. Overall, it was the first elite stadium in Ukraine UEFA and FIFA accreditation categories. There could fit 515 people there.

people. The cost of its construction was almost 176 million euros. This was the coolest. stadium in all of Eastern Europe. Home of the Shakhtar Donetsk football team.

Later, top-flight matches were held there. level, including the UEFA Champions League and Euro-212. After 2014 and the start of hostilities in In Donbas, matches were not held there.

Now The stadium is neglected and overgrown with grass. The beginning of 2010 brought Ukraine and new president Viktor Yanukovych. [music] It would be better, of course, without him, but what Will you do it? Don't fill these pages with the history of our independence.

Voting for him, by the way, absolutely democratic, was the result Ukrainians' disappointment in Yushchenko's team. Now we understand that this is enough Russia, which is purposeful and worked systematically to undermine the image Yushchenko and the European vector in general Ukraine.

Finally, the Russians had in Ukraine the president who arranged them. Already in April Yanukovych and the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signs Kharkiv agreements. In exchange for a discount for gas Ukraine extended the basing period in Crimea, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is still 25 years old.

Remember these shots? Speaker Volodymyr sits under an umbrella Litvin. Deputies from the hall are looking at him. They throw eggs and a liter of water.

Near the stands A massive fight, smoke bombs in the middle of the hall. Yes, there was a debate in parliament ratification of the Kharkov agreements. But despite the opposition of democratic forces, The majority voted in favor.

Will pass years and society will begin debate whether to prosecute for state the betrayal of those who then ratified Kharkiv agreements. The next step Yanukovych took was to himself a bunch of power.

30 September The Constitutional Court unanimously decision changed the form of government in the country from parliamentary to presidential republics on presidential-parliamentary. To do this, the court had to do what impossible in any democratic country.

Abolish the current one with one decision the constitution. Now for the formation of a government there was no need to assemble a coalition with parliamentary forces. Yanukovych himself appointed the prime minister, ministers and managers on the ground.

Just one could have freed them by decision. AND the following year Yanukovych took up his enemies, former top officials. Yulia Tymoshenko accused of exceeding power and official authority in concluding gas agreements with Russia in 2009 year.

Trial of the ex-prime minister broadcast live on television, and then lively discussions continued with various experts, politicians and political scientists. even seriously discussed that Putin will come to Kyiv to testify in case in favor of Tymoshenko.

This, Of course, it didn't happen. Yulia Tymoshenko sentenced to seven years behind bars. She once again became the most important political a prisoner of the country. In fact, everyone understood, that the agreements signed by Tymoshenko and Putin, are not beneficial to Ukraine.

But it was also visible selective justice, when the disadvantaged dozens of agreements, the same Kharkiv agreements, and they judge one person. And the fact that the whole the case is custom-made in white threads.

And even Judge Kireev, believe me, Then the whole country knew this name. Yes Well, everyone saw that when Kireev read verdict, he almost succeeded. Probably somewhere there were remnants of conscience speaking, although hardly.

Instead, the Minister of the Interior affairs of the Tymoshenko government Yuriy Lutsenko in this time just sat in the detention center. He was detained, without charge, literally stolen from the street.

Then they didn't spend no investigative actions, just kept in SIZO, because the Pechersk court chose such a precautionary measure. And every two months Lutsenko's detention continued until they were accused of abuse of authority during seizure for the job of a personal driver, as well as in wasting budget funds on celebrations Police Day.

Lutsenko was sentenced to four years in prison. After the victory of the revolution of dignity of him acquitted and released from the colony, as well as Yulia Tymoshenko. Do you remember how the whole 2010 and part of 2011 in Ukrainian hit parades without fail The singer Yolka from with a Russian-language song Provence.

In general, It was a time when in Ukraine, of all the irons Music was playing in Russian. Potapy Nastya, Russian-speaking Monatic, Boombox and others. However, they did not leave the lead in the race parades.

and places of happy people by Skryapin. more for us, the ocean of Elsa and the group teacher Threshing floor [music] 2012 - the triumph of Yanukovych's power. He and His close associates build their own estates, draw themselves in giant portraits Caesars and eat from golden plates.

IN society promotes the thesis that when Strong businessmen are in power. True, society, mostly from these The owners are being arrested. Especially over Prime Minister Azarov, who, trying to speak Ukrainian in meetings, yes twisted the words that his language was called Azirovka, and he himself was often called Kravosya.

Here's to this speech. A whole stratum has formed in the country bloodsuckers budget funds. But despite the undisguised Russianness political elite, then we, as a country, still continued to move towards Europe or at least imitated it. The dollar was eight each, and Ukraine was preparing for conducting the Ukrainian part European Football Championship Euro-2012.

Do you remember walking through the streets of cities? thousands of fans in the colors of their favorite teams, and around them stood a crowd of hundreds as? And kilometer-long queues to stadiums, the screams of fans in cafes, airports that have turned into a large hive. Then Ukraine hosted Euro 2012 together with Poland.

Ukrainians at this time were extremely united and monolithic. All political showdowns and social conflicts were postponed to then. However, deputies, associates Yanukovych was given a huge burden by society pig.

Euro Championship final match took place on July 1 at the NSC Olimpiyskyi, and already on July 3, Vice-Speaker of the Rada Martyniuk puts the so-called language issue to a vote Kivalov-Kolysnychenko law, which gives unlimited rights to the Russian language in Ukraine. There are not many people in the hall.

deputies, and those who are there are starting a fight. Cards are activated during voting even those regionals who are not on place. The law is being passed.

To journalists one of the then leaders comes out factions of the Regionals Mikhail Chechetov and says: "Raised like kittens." Meaning political opponents. IN the capital and other cities of the center and west Ukrainians are protesting against of this law.

In Kyiv near the Ukrainian activists at home in protest are starving, but these actions were not crowded, so the government does not have control over them reacted. The law will be repealed only after revolution of dignity.

And, of course, the era of Yanukovych's rule is time of arbitrariness. To the majors and those close to them The government could do anything. Real the social trigger then became two other history.

March terrible tragedy with an 18-year-old girl from Nikolaev Oksana Makar. Three boys arrested the same day. After interrogations one of them took the blame, and two others were released on bail not leaving.

And a scandal broke out. Local journalists reported that one of suspects son of former head Yelanytska District State Administration, and another allegedly the son of a former prosecutor Central district of Mykolaiv. Under the prosecutor's office of Nikolaev gathered a large rally.

Suspects Maxim Prysyazhnyuk and Artem Pogosyan again are taken into custody. A thousand days later people in Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Lviv, Lutsk and Sumy are coming out to protest against lawlessness in the law enforcement system, as well as to express support for Oksana Makar. Its transported to Donetsk burn hospital center, but the injuries were too severe.

On March 29, 2012, the girl will die. At the trial, which took place three months later after the murder of the girl, Yevhen Krasnoshchok, the guy who admitted that it was him strangled Oksana, received a life sentence. To Maxim Prysyazhnyuk, who partially admitted his guilty, sentenced to 15 years in prison will.

Artem Pogosya, who is guilty I denied it, they gave me 14 years. Second The story happened at the end of June. 2013, also in the Mykolaiv region, near the village of Vradiyivka.

beaten and thrown out of car in the forest belt 29-year-old store clerk Irina Krashkova. The woman named those who did this to her. They were police captain Yevhen Dryzhak, Lieutenant Dmytro Polishchuk and taxi driver Sergey Rybinenko.

Through participation law enforcement officers this case first tried to slow down on the brakes. Only the taxi driver was arrested and lieutenant, and captain Dryzhak on They quickly concocted alibis. Residents The Radovites did not believe that the culprits will be punished, so first a few hundred locals gathered near Vradivske district court and demanded that Dryzhak detained as a suspect, but this is not was done.

A few days later, a thousand people came to the rally at the rally station police. The management called on them to disperse, but this only angered NATO. People broke down the door of the police station, beat windows and a police car.

They went into action. bottles, firecrackers and Molotov cocktails. IN the police responded tear gas. After this assault and Due to publicity in the press, the troublemaker was detained.

But People's discontent was no longer hide The protest erupted in Vradiyiv march against police brutality. Several hundred people walked to Kyiv with the demand to investigate all crimes police, as well as the resignation of the minister Zakharchenko and re-certification of all law enforcement officers.

On Other people joined them on the way. Protesters set up tents on Independence Square, but late in the evening of July 18th they were demolished Berkut special police unit. In the end, they were still released.

Head of the Mykolaiv Regional police department and chief Vradiyivskyi department, and the then Prosecutor General Pshonka, the same one from portrait, dismissed from the position of prosecutor Vradiyivskyi district. Subsequently police officers Dryzhak and Polishchuk sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation rank.

Taxi driver Ryabenka was given 11 years. IN October 2012 was the most scandalous in the entire independence parliamentary elections. Yanukovych used all possible admin resource to ensure victory of his Party of Regions.

But, how polls showed, nor constant agitation from all sides, no bribery voters did not give preference to those in power forces. On voting day at polling stations special people provoked fights, kidnapped the heads of district committees, took them to protocols to an unknown direction.

Never The government has never gone to such cynical lengths before. fraud, like during those elections. In some precincts, elections never took place.

were able to conduct, so in the first days of work the Council of Deputies of the seventh convocation was 445 instead of 450. Most of the seats were held by the regional parties.

Back in The associations Batkivshchyna and Udar entered the parliament. Vitali Klitschko, communists and Svoboda Tyagneboka. This composition of parliament was completely explosive.

Fights and mutual Insults happened there almost every day. In general, the impression is that in those years in Ukrainian society seemed to exist two worlds. The so-called elite, friends Yanukovych, who feasted in their estates and felt completely unpunished, and other people who wanted to live in a legal to the state.

And it is this society was preparing for association with European Union, because we are officially continued their movement to the European Union. In general, Yanukovych and his Prime Minister Azarov They kept promising that they would sign the document.

about the association. But a few days before Vilnius Summit of the Eastern partnership, which was to be signed historical document, Cabinet of Ministers Ukraine decided to suspend the process preparation for concluding agreements. The order to this effect was published by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

Power turned sharply towards Russia. IN Euromaidan began in Kyiv, which grew into a revolution of dignity. And then It was February 20th and the Heavenly Hundred.

Heroes, who were shot in the center of Kyiv, Berkut special forces by order the then Minister of Internal Affairs Zakharchenko and former President Yanukovych. The next day, February 21, Yanukovych fled.

from Ukraine. Here are some more shots that are all good remember how good Yanukovych was are being transported by trucks from Mezhyhirya. Himself he first flew to Kharkov, and then through Crimea to Russia.

Next day Maidan activists entered the residence Yanukovych. Friends, when we say 34 years independence, of course, we mean first of all, liberation from Soviet rule occupation, the restoration of our independence, because our statehood much more than 34 years. And the enemy is understands perfectly.

For many centuries The Russians are trying to erase our history. and our identity. Just now they Ukrainian historical monuments are being looted in Crimea and other occupied territories territories. They always did this.

AND that is why it is so important to preserve and restore our iconic historical sites monuments and especially during war. Here why a real story with your support, of our community, took on the task of restoring Cossack estates in Pokorshchyna in Chernihiv region.

Why is this so? importantly? Because it is a single complex of the 10th century manor type, preserved in original form. The thing is that usually the Soviet government destroyed such estates or changed the application to other need.

Well, for example, I opened there psychiatric hospitals and they are almost impossible to restore after that. But this The estate was miraculously preserved.

Yes, when we saw her for the first time, she was in a terrible state condition, but we turned to her in time attention. Despite the process of destruction, there important architectural features have been preserved features, interior fragments and even fragments of original wallpaper, friends who are already 2 hundred years old.

Whom interesting, you can watch the special stream from Pokorshchyna, which we conducted on our channel. The link will be in the description.

under this video. Friends, it is important realize if we don't restore this manor, we will lose an important page of our history, namely understanding how lived a Cossack foreman. We have already collected 3 million UAH for design and flood protection work.

We replace the roof on the tenement house, We are strengthening the foundation of the estate itself. But we need to move on and continue restoration work.

So The Pokorshchyna restoration team continues and will continue until we prove this the matter to the end. I call on everyone to participate in the restoration of our historical heritage.

You can donate for The QR code you now see on your screens, or using a payment buttons in the description under this video. Let's to restore our history and our independence together.

Well, friends, we are with you now. the largest building of the Mezhyhirya complex. You see what a scope this is. This is exactly right.

the house where Yanukovych lived, the so-called Honka. Well, this palace itself, it four-story, although there is another one fifth technical floor. It's just him.

built by the Finnish company Honka, very known in the world, with such environmentally friendly pure wood species. Well, actually, here it is.

Yanukovych lived. This is his main living room. Just imagine, 76 rooms. 76, where Yanukovych kept all his things, this, you know, pressed by excessive work. Paintings, various jewels, bas-reliefs, many, many precious things.

And, to By the way, he didn't post everything. A lot of things now it is stored here, from Mezhyhirya. Preserved in the National Art Museum museums.

Interestingly, this is where activists after Yanukovych fled, just found that famous golden loaf. Yet there are legends about a golden toilet, but this just a legend. For now at least confirmation that there really were gold toilets, no.

Although in general, as you see, gilding is simple, well I don't I know, she's everywhere here. There in The previous room has a gilded chandelier. worth, friends, you will now drop 8 million euro.

Can you imagine? Well, you know, you can, of course, admire this scale, but you need to understand what it really is a monument to corruption, because that's all made with our money and yours. That which Yanukovych and his family, entourage, well, and In general, that regime stole from us, in ordinary Ukrainians.

It is interesting that with last year Mezhyhirya became state-owned and now operates here State Park Mezhyhirya Monument. AND they talk here, well, actually, not only about corruption and about Yanukovych, tell a general story about this places, about the history of Mezhyhirya, because actually it is not famous because Yanukovych, well, more precisely, we call him that we associate more with Yanukovych, and In fact, there is a thousand-year-old history here.

Since during Russian times, later during Cossack times, there was a monastery here, which is considered Cossack Lavra. If you are still from some reasons not to visit a state park in memory of Mezhyhirya, then definitely come here.

Here the entrance is open for all tourists. Buy a ticket and Pass by. There are a lot of buildings here, huge, beautiful park. Well, overall, extremely an interesting story that you definitely have hear.

And, by the way, when we arrived here to film this scene, they thought that It would be cool to film a whole episode. about Mezhyhirya, about its history and about ancient history, and about the history of this very buildings, because there are also a lot of them here everything interesting.

Write in the comments, Would you watch such an episode? Friends, Ms. Ruslana Bordakova, tour guide of the Mezhgorye Monument Museum. Yes, Ms.

Ruslan, we just went down. in the knight's hall. Yes, absolutely true. This is the lower lobby entrance to the residence building fugitive ex-president Hong. Aha.

And what did the knight say, why is he here? Did you instruct the knights? It And you see, the entire first floor is his decorated in such a Gothic style. AND one of the brightest decorations ever These knightly armors appear.

It copies, these are modern replicas, but made they are really from medieval knightly armor that belonged to European rulers. Aha.

That is, he gave someone a task, to make it according to, well, patterns. Yes, absolutely true. The manufacturer of these armor is a company that specializes in military weapons, for the production of something like this medieval military weapons. But you definitely know the work of this company, if you watched, for example, Hollywood movies.

such as sena warrior, escalibre or Gladiator with Russell Crowe. Can you imagine that, friends? I'm even afraid. ask how much they cost.

Armor costs on average from 10 up to 20,000 euros. Here's this one, if I don't I'm wrong, they state what it costs. somewhere around €15,000.

Just for armor. Well, you see, friends, We are so ironic about it. Yanukovych. Wreaths fall on his head, and a person himself, you see, in a slightly different way I felt like a knight, probably. And this is here a round table, like in Camelot, something like that.

Like in Camelot. Do you see the lights in in the form of such torches, as well as mosaics, old technology. Her house is very many.

There's a dining room called unofficially a dining room with a crocodile. Why Will you see now? With a crocodile. Crocodile.

Yes, indeed, this is real leather. crocodile. Well, we don't know for sure. a type of alligator, uh, whose skin is here presented, but we have an assumption that maybe this is the skin that belonged to such a a rare species of alligator, like the black caiman. Black caimans, they live in South America, they are disappearing species and are listed in the Red books of the International Union for the Protection of nature.

And who played this piano? We don't know for sure who played behind him. us, but we know something about this piano. This grand piano, made by Stainway and Suns, this royal from the collection limited edition, which was released in 2010, as they say, to the seventieth anniversary John Lennon.

And this series was called Imagine, named after one of the most famous his songs. So, 25 grand pianos were produced in total. AND here this one Yes, in the world, of course, in the world.

And here is this one royal, he was number two in this list 25. The higher up the list, the more expensive tool. And this tool is being evaluated was being evaluated then at the time release approximately 220-230 000 dollars.

Here is such a collectible tool number two from the list of 25. Oh my god, $220,000. Well, but Listen, well, well, Yanukovych, well, where is he, Where, where is art and music here? there are? Well, well, probably someone, well, that is, someone him Take this thing. This is Yanukovych's office.

Yes, this is the study here, in this Honka buildings. It stayed here. a bibliographical rarity. Very valuable collection of books. It remained so, stands here.

And I want to show it to you. You see, friends, you say: "Professor, professor, professor read, "You see, did I read the encyclopedia or not?" I unknown. But as for the professor, I want to tell you show something else.

Here in the office was two diplomas were actually found, which confirm that such a yes, he professor. What kind of diplomas are these? First diploma from a Ukrainian university National Mining Academy of Ukraine, city ​​of Dnipropetrovsk.

Honorable The former president was a professor at this university. fugitive Well, but you see, it's written with one F here. But look, you need a second diploma pay closer attention.

Russian Federation, Academy of Problems defense security and law and order, Moscow city. And, you see, in 2004, suddenly finished when we had orange There was a revolution. Yes, look, there were also coats of arms.

Family coat of arms, Yanukovych family coat of arms. This is an early version that was given to him in 2001, when he was not just a president, but not even the Prime Minister of Ukraine yet was. But this is the final option, when he became the president of Ukraine.

AND And you? They made him a coat of arms. They made him a coat of arms, but they made representatives of Russian heraldry union. This is a kind of Yanukovych's feast of saints.

Yes, this is the fugitive president's bedroom. Yes, Yanukovych's bedroom. When in this house the fugitive ex-president lived here, there were completely different works, works of art that he took it with him. Because, resisting according to the testimony of activists who came here immediately after the ex-president's escape, then right in the bedroom, in the places where they hung paintings, there were empty spaces.

What you what you see now are paintings that remained that were not taken out. And they were, well, in a room like this, which we conventionally called a gift room, because at one time the ex-president The fugitive was given many gifts, including paintings that depicted his personality in different historical periods. Well, here some real masterpieces could be created to be world-class or not? How are you? Do you think? And so, you know, after the escape ex-presidents came here art historians, museum workers, historians.

they appreciated what was here left. And, for example, the deputy Director of Research at the Museum Varvara and Bohdana Khanenko found it here two very valuable works of art. This is one 16, end of 16, beginning of 10th century, if I'm not mistaken, this is Yan's authorship.

Bruegel the Elder. And the second job is already Russian artist Vasily Pelenova, which was purchased in 2011 at auction for more than 4 million pounds sterling and hung here in Honka and for some reason it was not taken away. Friends, you see, this is such a unique place, monument of corruption.

Well, me too, You know, when we used to go here, actually everything here, well, in a very nicely preserved condition. And this is also a question of that and that.

our revolution, and to the quality of our people. This object has been around for many years. was simply under control public organization, and in the early days after the victory of the revolution of dignity in general, well, there were a lot of different people. And, you know, and the fact that, well, if it has all been preserved, this indicates that that, well, also well how much we civilized, you know? Yes, and because, well, actually it could just be to steal, yes, steal, smash and destroy eventually.

And so now we can watch and to realize which regime was in charge Ukraine just 11 years ago. The revolution of dignity has won. And 21 March Ukraine and the EU signed an agreement about the association.

Meanwhile, the Russians They captured our Crimea. Peninsula flooded with green men, Russian military personnel without identification marks. They started doing this on February 20th.

Until Special company soldiers of the Kyiv Berkut Regiment shot people in the center of Kyiv, green men blocked airports, military units and administrative buildings in Crimea. More details about the occupation in general We made a separate film about Crimea.

Be sure to watch it. Finished with Crimea, they took on Donbas. On in the Ukrainian Donbas, rocking pro-Russian sentiments, Russians left by forming pseudo-folk republics, while extending it to the entire the world lies that Ukrainians are fighting there Ukrainians. Although in the Donetsk region and The same Russian military operated in Luhansk region without identifying marks, as in Crimea.

They also spent time there on the expressway. referendums and announced the formation of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics. April 12, 2014 Russian sabotage group led by With the help of Strelkov, Gorkin captures Slavyansk.

The whole world saw this practically live. on air. Then another one of the Russians The military was burned with the word pareprik. Then, in the spring of 2014, pro-Russian forces Kramatorsk and Mariupol are also captured.

Ukrainian authorities announce anti-terrorist operation. Young people, what winter 2013-2014 years spent in a tent camp on Kyiv Maidan, created volunteer detachments, took up arms and went to defend Donbas from Russia. On May 25, Ukrainians in President Petro was elected in the first round Poroshenko.

In the summer of 2014, ATO forces successfully liberated Ukrainian cities and villages. 13 June, the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Guard and Azov and Dnipro volunteer detachments Mariupol was liberated. On July 5, Slavyansk was liberated, and also Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostyantynivka.

Then it seemed that even a little bit and these DPR and LPR will remain in past. It was then, by the way, that the Russians The propagandists have hit another low. Do you remember the story of the crucified man? a boy? In early August, Ukrainian volunteer battalions tried to liberate Ilovaisk, but suffered great losses.

The fighting for the city lasted almost the entire August, until the regular ones arrived Russian troops did not surround ours strength. On August 29, while leaving The Russians were mass-shooting the surrounding area columns with Ukrainian soldiers.

By according to official data, in the Ilovaisk boiler 366 soldiers died. 429 were wounded, 300 captured. 17 July 2014 over the occupied part A passenger Boeing was shot down in Donetsk Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

The Russians shot it down with a missile from Buk anti-aircraft missile system. Rather having mistaken it for a Ukrainian plane. 298 people died.

In November 2022 The Hague District Court convicted the perpetrators of this crime: Igor Girkin, Strilkov, Sergey Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko to life imprisonment. Of course, they weren't there.

at the meeting. The verdict was handed down in absentia. All three are currently in Russia. Kharchenko and Dubinsky at large, and Girkin Strilkov was sentenced to four years in prison for allegedly calling for extremism, but in fact for several Telegram posts with criticism Russian authorities. Such is the irony of fate.

May 26, 2014 begins the heroic defense of Donetsk airport, which lasted until January 22, 2015, 242 days. Since about the end of September, the Russians They brought serious weapons there, hailstones, various artillery, tanks and shelled Ukrainian defenders every day, but They were unable to capture the building.

Let us show that We are the brothers of the Cossacks. kind. In the end, only by destroying the airport completely, the Russians were able to take it. Tim At one time, the first prisoners were tried in Russia Kremlin from Crimea, directed by Oleg Sintsov and student Oleksandr Kolchenko.

Their arrested in May 2014. At the police station FSB in Simferopol tortured, demanding to take on fictional crimes. To the Russians Demonstrative criminal cases were needed cases against pro-Ukrainian activists, to legalize future repression.

The case of Sinsov and Kolchenko was considered by North Caucasus Military District The court issued a verdict in August 2015. Sinsova found guilty of management terrorist group that was allegedly preparing terrorist attacks and sentenced to 20 years in prison freedom in a maximum security colony.

Kolchenko was accused simply of participating in terrorist group and given 10 years strict regime colonies. In the fall, both The sentences were confirmed by the Russian Supreme Court.

court. Against the backdrop of these tragic events was a pleasant gift for Ukrainians victory at Eurovision 2016 Ukrainian singer Jamala. AND unpleasant sharp fall of the hryvnia.

Goodbye, eight dollars. At the end of 2014 American currency became worth 15 The UAH continued to depreciate further. [music] At midnight on June 11, 2017 for The borders of Europe opened to Ukrainians.

Everyone who has issued a biometric passport, could enter the countries without hindrance Schengen area, as well as to Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Visa cancellation with the European Union millions of Ukrainians were expecting, because it was still made us more related to Europe.

None mass migration, as many believed, didn't happen. People just became bigger travel. By the way, for a dollar then I had to pay 25 UAH. 25 November 2018 three Ukrainian vessels boats Nikopol, Berdyansk and boxer Yana The Kapu were going from Odessa to Berdyansk.

They were to replenish the naval forces Ukraine on the Sea of ​​Azov. During crossing the Kerch Strait by ships the Russians open fire on them and eventually captivated. On boats There were 24 Ukrainian sailors.

Six of them were wounded at the time. The Russians took them captive and absolutely cynically and accused, contrary to international law in violation of the Russian border. Sailors held in Moscow's Lefortovo prison.

Ukraine immediately filed a lawsuit against Russia to the European Court of Human Rights Human Rights and the International Criminal Tribunal for the maritime law. In May 2019 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea obliged Russia to immediately release all seafarers and allow them to return to Ukraine, and also to return to Ukraine ships.

But Russia was not going to implement this decision. Until September 7, 2019 sailors returned home as part of a great exchange. 35x35.

Crimean sailors returned with the sailors Branti, director Oleg Sintsov and student Alexander Kolchenko. Instead, the Russians They gave away a very valuable witness in the case.

downing of a Malaysian Boeing, anti-aircraft gun of the so-called DPR of Volodymyr Tsemakh. Before he was interrogated by the Dutch in exchange investigators. Also transferred to Russia RIA head accused of treason News Ukraine by Kyrylo Vyshynsky.

In the spring of 2018, Ukraine received from the United States Javeli anti-tank missile systems. Surprisingly, the president in the United States then there was Donald Trump. It was his first term.

Here I would like to summarize in general terms the period of Petro Poroshenko's rule. Well, and You may agree with me or not. agree, because you remember very well this period themselves.

Write in the comments how you feel it. In my opinion, it is in a large number of these years have been carried out important reforms. Actually restored the Ukrainian army, and this is the most important thing.

Education, medical, anti-corruption reform infrastructure, privatization Privatbank. In the end, yes, a lot of things didn't work as well as it should have. Here, I I think everyone has a lot of arguments, but The country was really changing for the better.

and it was felt. But in the end, as with all presidents before that corrupt scandals surrounding the president's entourage, the growth of influence of figures such as Medvedchuk, created a request for politicians, as they say, a new type or not the ones that were in the system. In April 2019, Ukrainians elect a new president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

During the inauguration Zelenskyy dismisses speeches ahead of schedule Verkhovna Rada and calls new elections. They took place in July and for the first time in history independent Ukraine in the parliament a monomajority was formed.

254 places received by the Servant of the People party. It was an unprecedented mandate of popular trust and love not so much for the party, created shortly before the elections, how many to its leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Let's be honest, the lists could have been write cat Marco, and people voted would be for him too.

Now there were none problems with passing laws. The majority voted for everything. submitted by the president and their faction. This was called turbo mode.

But The faction also included dubious ones types. For example, MP Roman Ivanisov concealed a rape conviction minor. After it became It is known that he left the party.

Or Bogdan Yaremenko, who is just in the session hall carried on an intimate correspondence that was filmed TV cameras. he also had to get out of factions.

There were also such people there, about which I don't even want to mention, like Alexander Dubinsky. In 5 years from The Servant of the People faction had 41 deputies.

In 2024, the most high-profile was the break with faction of Maryana Bezuglaya. Well, this one Dmytro Kostyuk left in 2011 after in fact, the government forced the deputies to vote for the scandalous law that deprived the NABU of its independence. In the fall of 2019, President Zelensky found himself embroiled in an American scandal.

It became known that Donald allegedly Trump demanded that Zelensky open case against the son of his potential opponent in the 2020 election Joe Biden Hunter Biden, who worked in Ukrainian energy company. Price this service was US military aid Ukraine.

Trump, by the way, almost They then announced impeachment because of this. American senators accused him of pressure on the Ukrainian leader. At the end of April 2019 Ukrainian President Zelensky met with Putin.

This meeting did not stop the war, as many Ukrainians hoped and, probably Zelensky himself before that. Overall, 2019 turned out to be so saturated with political events that we didn't pay attention to the message at first from Chinese origin.

There at the beginning winter in December recorded an outbreak of a new diseases. And already in March 2020 we are horrified listened to the news from a covid-hit Europe and watched as the pandemic is creeping across Ukraine. We learned to walk.

Wash your face very often and properly while wearing a mask hands and use antiseptics. We learned new concepts like self-isolation and remote control. And remember how many of We thought then that there was nothing worse with us.

It simply cannot happen. Vaccine from Covid was developed in a few months and already at the end of 2020 and all of 2021 continued mass vaccination. By the way, The virus has not disappeared anywhere and doctors It is recommended to get vaccinated every year.

To the world They told a story about flying birds for a long time. mice that were traded in the Wuhan market, as the primary cause of the pandemic. And last year the American CIA reported that Covid, most likely has a laboratory origin.

And it spread through a leak from the laboratory to the ear. This whole thing came to kill us. February 24 In 2022, we woke up to explosions, and Some have already arrived today. in occupation.

Remember those huge lines? to the military police? Huge queues at borders. Some people left, others... on the contrary, they stopped by to take weapons to movement and defend their country.

But in the vast majority of us before this war were not ready. And not because the president previously called for preparation for barbecues. No.

Simply realistic in the modern era It is difficult to imagine such a war in the world. And to 22 February we also had a hard time understanding it. We would like to make the world a better place, to master new technologies, to discover new worlds, start families, give birth children, but we have to put all this aside side and destroy the enemy.

Well, we're actually doing well at it. Everyone, who thinks that everything is bad for us and we lose, let's remember what kind of world imagined the Russian army by 2022. invincible.

And how surprised were those who gave us three days or a couple of weeks. The first time we heard about the cluster Russian troops near Ukrainian borders in November 2021. Articles appeared in Western media, their commented in the Pentagon and officially confirmed an unusual concentration troops.

First, the Ukrainian government denied the information, but the chief Main Intelligence Directorate Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov said in an interview on November 21, that Russia has indeed concentrated over 92 000 soldiers on the border and a large-scale An invasion from three directions is being prepared. for January-February 2022.

And a few days later the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Koleba stated that the invasion plan lies on the table in the Kremlin, but There is no final decision yet. And already in December, remember, there were several cards.

Here the Washington Post had satellite pictures showing four Russian groups near ours borders and 175,000 troops. And there was also map in the German tabloid Bild and from arrows of Russian attacks from stages of the seizure of Ukraine.

Then a lot who laughed at her, but she turned out to be on a miracle true. February 24, 2022 It all happened that way. Only the first and second The offensive phase began simultaneously.

But all this plan was thwarted by Ukrainians military. No Kyiv in three days, no Odessa, not Kharkiv, not Dnipro, not Sumy. Ukrainian military for the fourth year heroically repel the Russian attack troops.

Many of them die or get serious injuries and mutilations, but The Ukrainian army continues to stand behind your state. Peaceful Ukrainians every night hugging their children, hiding in storage rooms, basements or corridors from Russian drones and missiles.

Every morning at In cities and villages, people on their knees they see their loved ones off on their final journey defenders. And every day at 9 o'clock the whole country pauses for a moment to remember everyone who we have lost, and pray for the living.

And then each of us gathers ourselves together and leaves to work, to volunteer, to donate, to do everything that can make this ours so expensive The state, acquired at a price, lived. Well, friends, we remembered 34 years ago independence.

We started with the gangs of the 90s, from inflation, from poverty, from the crazy kleptocracy with a society that does not trusted their state and which even could not have imagined what this state was capable of change. From the disenfranchised Soviets people Ukrainians have grown up to be full-fledged citizens citizens responsible for their the state.

Between these two mentalities a huge abyss. And we successfully crossed this chasm overcome. Of course, they were overcome by the squares, bloodshed, war. This price independence.

We are losing the best, to have their own state. But, friends, if we will stop everything for at least a minute quarrels and look at the path we are on overcome, we will understand that we have something boast. And you and I can only to applaud, standing up for oneself and one's country what we ultimately built.