



Part one of two.
In the studio Politkovsky Alexander, Lyubimov Alexander.
Announcements of the program stories.
Politkovsky Alexander talks about the war, on the table are gun cartridges and ammunition and parts of weapons.
Video clip with fragments of the stories.
Lyubimov Alexander talks about the signing of the federal treaty by the former republics of the USSR. Video clip: Gorbachev Mikhail goes up the stairs.
Yeltsin Boris and Nazarbayev Nursultan go up the stairs, followed by officials.
Gorbachev Mikhail reads and rearranges papers on the table, before the meeting.
At the meeting in the presidium Yeltsin Boris, Nazarbayev Nursultan and other presidents of the former republics of the USSR. Flags of the republics on the table.
View of the square where the Council of Elders is taking place in Chechnya.
A poster with the inscription: "This is our last rally", next to one of the elders in a papakha hat.
Flag of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (without coat of arms).
An elder in a papakha hat with a gun in his hand sits in the hall.
Chechens on the street buy newspapers from a woman.
Men with weapons on the street.
A Chechen in a burka and papakha next to two servicemen with machine guns.
View of the mountain peaks of the Caucasus Mountains.
Chronicle: A rally in the city of Sochi.
A man on a snowmobile rides across the tundra.
Nazarov Vyachkslav - Chairman of the Chukotka Regional Executive Committee, speaks about the sovereignty of Chukotka.
View of the building of the Chukotka Regional Executive Committee.
Glazatov Valery - First Deputy Head of the Magadan Administration, speaks about sovereignty.
A herd of reindeer in the tundra in winter.
A reindeer herder in national dress against the background of a herd.
Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich signs a document.
St.
George Hall of the Kremlin.
Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich stands and delivers a speech about Russia.
The participants of the meeting sit in the hall.
View of the streets and houses of Kazan.
Poll of residents of the city of Kazan "Did you vote for independence or against?" Residents answer questions.
A sculpture of a man behind his back is the Kremlin tower with a star.
Kupala of the church and a monument to the hero.
Fragments of sculptures.
The national flag of Tatarstan is flying on the building of the Supreme Council of Tatarstan in Kazan.
People are walking along the stairs of the underground passage.
Children are playing in the street.
A man with a blue basin on his head is walking along the street.
A woman and a man with a baby carriage are walking along the street.
A policeman in uniform and a winter hat are sitting on a bench.
Three women are talking in the street.
Two men and dogs in the street.
A sign on the building "Tatarstan republicans presidents".
The flag of Tatarstan.
A child on a tricycle.
Makhmutov Amir speaks about the sovereignty of Tatarstan.
Logo of the party of national independence of Tatarstan "Ittifak".
Zaimulina Flyura, a member of the party "Ittifak", speaks about the national independence of Tatarstan.
A sculpture of a man behind his back is the Kremlin tower with a star.
Kupala of the church and the monument to the hero.
Fragments of sculptures.
Shaimiev Mintimer Sharipovich - President of Tatarstan, speaks about democratization.
The dial of the grandfather clock with a pendulum and weights in the office.
The swinging pendulum of the clock.
Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich feeds a teddy bear from his hand.
Shaimiev Mintimer Sharipovich speaks about the referendum, the media and life in Tatarstan.
Panorama of a grocery store in Kazan, people are standing in line.
Meat on the counter of the store.
Grocery store counter with scales, a woman is buying milk.
Two people enter the arch, view of the monument.
View of the church cross.
People on the streets of Kazan.
Legs in boots, puddles.
A soldier smokes near the fence, reflection in a puddle.
A flag with a star and a crescent moon flutters on the balcony of a house.
Akhmerova Saniya - Chairperson of the Committee for the Defense of President Shaimiev, speaks about the signing of the federal treaty.
In the studio, Asmolov Aleksandr Grigorievich answers the hosts' questions.
Asmolov Aleksandr Grigorievich talks about lack of spirituality, illiteracy and irresponsibility.
Video clip about Chernobyl.
View of a village house with a plot.
Gate and road.
Thick tree branches.
Empty house, utensils in the yard.
Sign "Chernobyl".
Sign "Caution: Radiation".
Caption "Zone".
A serviceman checks the radiation level of car wheels with a dosimeter.
View of dry forest and deadwood.
Sign "STOP".
View of the sarcophagus of the fourth unit of the Chernobyl power plant.
A man drives a stake into the ground in the forest.
View of the sarcophagus of the fourth unit of the Chernobyl power plant, bricks lying on the ground, a trolley for a gas cylinder, a sign "Caution: Radiation".
Kravchuk Leonid Makarovich - President of Ukraine, talks about the problems of the country.
The inscription on the wall "Checkpoint".
Buildings without glass in the windows, coils for wire, empty.
The inscription on the wall "Entrance to the dirty zone".
The dosimeter lies on the table and beeps.
Liquidators in helmets and masks, climb the stairs.
View from the opening to the territory of the nuclear power plant.
Korneev Artur - a liquidator in a helmet smokes against the background of the sarcophagus of the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The inscription on the wall "Evacuation route".
A liquidator in a helmet goes down to the basement of the station.
The control room of the station, the walls are covered with polyethylene, fire buckets, the numbers on the radiation counter are blinking.
Pasechnikov Albert talks about the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Yeltsin Boris Nikolaevich - President of Russia. Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishevich - First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich - President of the USSR. Nazarov Vyachkslav - Chairman of the Chukotka Okrug Polkom. Glazatov Valery is the first deputy head of the Magadan Administration. Amir Makhmutov - Chairman of the Sovereignty Committee. Shaimiev Mintimer Sharipovich - President of Tatarstan. Akhmerova Sania is the chairman of the Committee for the Defense of President Shaimiev. Asmolov Alexander Grigorievich - Deputy Minister of Education of Russia. Kravchuk Leonid Makarovich - President of Ukraine. Pasechnikov Albert, head of the complex expedition of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy.
03.04.1992