Politburo №1 19.02.1993 (1993)

A report on the stories from the previous programme.

Video footage: delivery of humanitarian aid and loading of refugees from Tkuarchal into a helicopter.

Faces of peacekeeping officers and volunteers.

Unloading bags of humanitarian aid.

Abkhaz women and children in a helicopter.

Refugees disembarking from a helicopter.

View of the rear of the Russian Emergencies Ministry helicopter, with bags of humanitarian aid lying next to it.

Views of the building and interiors of the premises of the Russian-British joint venture, whose employees are awaiting eviction.

Dachas in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region, illegally privatized by officials of the Ministry of Defence.

Views of the meeting room and faces of the delegates to the Second Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. The face of former Vice President of the USSR G. I. Yanayev.

Former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. I. Lukyanov gives an interview about the upcoming trial of the members of the State Emergency Committee (synchronously).

Congress participants talk on the sidelines.

Latest news (animation).

A story about the problem of storing nuclear waste.

Newsreel (alternating with photographs): views of the port of New York in December 1942. Passengers disembark.

Fighting on the Soviet-German front in the winter of 1943. Views of the Moscow Kremlin.

Desert landscape in New Mexico.

Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin I.V. during the Yalta Conference of 1945. Armored vehicles and infantry during one of the parades on Red Square.

Jet planes fly over Red Square.

Stalin watches the planes flying by from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Artillery at the parade on Red Square.

Newsreel of parades on Red Square, construction sites of the first five-year plans.

A unit of missile troops marches during exercises in the 1970s.

Takeoff of a strategic bomber.

Bringing mobile installations with nuclear warheads into combat readiness.

Exercises of the armies of NATO countries and the USSR. Chairman of the Russian committee "International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War" Sergei Kolesnikov speaks about the areas of the country's territory subjected to radiation contamination (synchronously).

A meeting of the scientific and practical seminar of radio ecologists of Siberia and the Far East.

One of the seminar participants speaks.

A fragment of a map with radioactive areas marked on it.

Types of industrial enterprises.

Drainage of radioactive waste.

Newsreel: nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site.

Views of parts of the test site territory in the early 1990s.

Residents of a village located next to a nuclear weapons depot, in the yard of a house.

A woman gives an interview (synchronously).

Views of the village and the former test site.

Conducting military exercises.

Everyday service of soldiers at the test site.

Views of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the explosion in 1986, liquidation of the consequences of the accident.

Boarded up houses in abandoned villages.

View of the fourth power unit after the explosion (from above).

A resident of Chernobyl talks about everyday life in the disaster zone (synchronously).

Views of the mothballed sections of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Workers in the fourth block.

View of the sarcophagus and a panorama of part of the adjacent territory.

Entrance to the secret city of Krasnoyarsk-26. View of one of the city streets.

Electronic board on the street showing the radiation level.

Views of buildings and streets of the city.

Checking passes at the checkpoint.

Entrance to the underground plutonium production plant.

Underground tunnels of the plant.

Underground street leading to the hydrometallurgical plant.

Rocket launch from an underground shaft.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

US President George Bush Sr. and his wife during a meeting with M.S. Gorbachev in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Missile troops units during a parade on Red Square.

Armored vehicles on the streets of Moscow during the August events of 1991. Members of the State Emergency Committee during a press conference.

Yeltsin B.N. during the signing of the Belovezhskaya Accords in December 1991. Professor of the Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute Valery Ivanov speaks about the priority of resolving radioecology issues and the conversion of nuclear enterprises (synchronously).

Panorama and views of the control room of the Krasnoyarsk Mining and Chemical Combine.

Views of the frozen construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.

Internal views of the spent fuel storage facility.

The process of accepting spent uranium for storage.

The production process at a nuclear power plant.

Entrance to the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Mining and Chemical Combine.

Missile forces exercises.

View of a missile silo.

Bringing a missile with a nuclear warhead into combat position.

Launch buttons on the control panel.

Guest in the studio - former Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council under the President of the USSR Oleg Baklanov talks about the creation and production of nuclear weapons in the USSR, the problems that arose, the reasons for the development of work on creating nuclear weapons, the danger of nuclear weapons proliferation, the need to maintain peace between countries and civil peace in Russia, the artificial ratio of the ruble to the dollar, the problems of the domestic economy, the benefits of being in prison (synchronously).

Answers to questions from TV viewers.