Peak hour №1 13.02.1996 (1996)

Evgeny Kiselev introduces Galina Starovoytova as a possible candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation.

Starovoytova shares facts from her autobiography, talks about the difficulties that those who run for the post of head of state have to face, points out the existence of female discrimination in Russia, as well as female jealousy of female colleagues.

The topic of the military conflict in Chechnya is raised - what Starovoytova would have done if she were the Minister of Defense.

Expresses her point of view on the issue of Chechnya's possible withdrawal from Russia, talks about negotiations with Dudayev.

Explains the existing contradictions in international law regulating the sovereignty of a nation: on the one hand, the right of peoples to self-determination, on the other, the inviolability of state borders (the Helsinki Treaty of 1975).

Statistics are given on referendums that resulted in changes in the borders of some countries (in particular, in the USSR), after the regions that declared themselves independent states withdrew from them.

The problem of the development of democracy and the democratic movement in Russia is considered. G. Starovoitova tells how in 1989 she helped B.N. Yeltsin write a report for the Plenum of the Central Committee.

But because of reports on the content of the text, Yeltsin was deprived of the opportunity to speak at the Plenum.

She admits the current disagreements with the course of the President of the Russian Federation, speaks about the duplicity of many politicians, about the inadmissibility of returning to the era of totalitarianism.

She speaks with humor about her appearance, about the photo collage posted in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", where she is depicted as a participant in a sports competition of the 1930s, and speaks with irony about the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G. Zyuganov.