Politburo №1 20.06.1992 (1992)

A report on the stories from previous programmes: about the former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia A. Rubiks and the former Deputy Commander of the Riga OMON Sergei Parfenov, awaiting trial in Riga prison.

Rubiks during an interview Views of the prison yard.

Parfenov speaks about the hatred and fear of Latvian politicians, about the end of familiarisation with the case materials, about the desire of the Latvian authorities to take revenge on him, demands a fair trial, about the state of uncertainty and lack of information about his family and colleagues, says that he was fulfilling his oath (synchronously).

Portrait of Parfenov.

Prosecutor General of Latvia J. Skrastiņš speaks about the charges brought against Parfenov (synchronously).

View of part of the building and grounds of Riga prison. A. Rubiks speaks about the upcoming trial of Parfenov, about his attitude towards the actions of the Riga OMON, about the injustice of the accusation against Parfenov (synchronously).

Views of the Riga OMON base area (above).

Removing the USSR flag from the tower.

OMON units leave Riga in September 1991. In his interview, Parfenov talks about the concept of the Motherland (synchronous).

Parfenov's wife Olga talks about the loss of hope for justice, about the loss of faith in Russian Vice President Rutskoy, who did not keep his promise to help (synchronous).

Airplane flights in Zhukovsky.

Rutskoy A.V. watches the flights.

Performing aerobatics.

The face of actor Alexander Pashutin.

An Emergencies Ministry plane before taking off for Transnistria.

Military equipment on the streets of Tiraspol.

A local resident talks about shelling from the opposite bank (synchronous).

Ambulances enter the territory of the Tiraspol City Hospital.

A boy in a bed talks about being wounded during the shelling (synchronous).

A wounded Transnistrian guardsman and a Moldovan OPON officer are sharing beds in the same ward.

The wounded man talks about his attitude towards the wounded enemy (synchronously).

One of the fighters shows the combat positions.

A panorama of part of the vineyard where snipers are hiding.

An armored personnel carrier is driving along the road to Dubossary.

Distribution of hot food at the positions of Transnistrian guardsmen.

Transnistrian guardsmen in trenches and in positions, faces of the guardsmen.

Trenches dug at the edge of a vineyard.

A panorama of part of the Dniester.

Photos of the victims of terrorists.

A shot-up ambulance.

Surgeons remove bullets from the body of Nikolai Ostapenko.

Ostapenko's Volga riddled with bullets.

The place where the burnt car with the doctor's body was found.

Detained V. Garbuz talks about the details of the murder of doctor Gusarov committed by him and his accomplices (synchronously).

Examples of protective gear and small arms captured from terrorists.

Analysis of trophies.

Faces of detained terrorists.

Romanian-made weapons captured as trophies, markings on weapons.

Positions of the Transnistrian Guard near the village of Kucieri.

One of the Guardsmen talks about his participation in the hostilities (synchronously).

Damage to the armor plates of an engineering obstacle clearance vehicle.

The Alazan multiple launch rocket system fires.

Loading multiple launch rocket systems.

The shelling begins.

Guardsmen hide in shelters, take up positions.

An elderly woman talks about the war in Transnistria (synchronously).

Funeral of the dead in Dubossary.

The wife over the coffin of a dead Guardsman.

Panorama of a destroyed house.

An armored personnel carrier passes by the ruins.

Filling the belt of a large-caliber machine gun.

Faces of women and children.

Panorama of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

People on the streets of Moscow.

A boy sits at a table, his memories of the war in Abkhazia are heard off-screen.

A girl plays the piano, her words about her attitude to the civil war are heard off-screen, alternating with video footage of military operations in Abkhazia.