Politburo №1 23.04.1993 (1993)

The "

Work Progress Report"

section features an informational video selection: a trial with a business center on Sretensky Boulevard, the seizure of Pragma Bank accounts (in the frame, the acting chairman of the bank's board, Konstantin Verenikin);

financial machinations of the president of the Russian Hockey Federation, Vladimir Petrov (in the frame);

an appeal for help from a former soldier, a participant in the military operations in Afghanistan, Sergei Kulyabin, who is looking for his fellow soldiers (the request is accompanied by video footage of the presence of Soviet troops in Afghanistan).

An animated section: a cartoon character, Dmitry Politburov, speaks ironically about the upcoming referendum (the advertising slogan of the campaign is "yes-yes-no-yes") and Easter Sunday.

A story dedicated to the upcoming referendum on April 25: A poster on a city street "Everyone to the referendum!" A polling station.

Voting.

Interviews with passers-by.

Interviews with Elena Bonner, Vladimir Isakov, Vadim Bakatin, Yegor Ligachev.

Video editing in clip style: motorcade leaving the Kremlin gates, public unrest, Soviet flag, events of 1991, 17th Congress of the CPSU, Boris Yeltsin (bathing in a geyser), Valery Zorkin, Alexander Rutskoy, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Mikhail Gorbachev (at a polling station), Yegor Gaidar, Ruslan Khasbulatov, deputies during a session, one of them looking through a telescope.

Vyacheslav Kostikov, Mikhail Poltoranin, Vladimir Isakov, Yegor Ligachev - answer the question: "Do you trust the President of Russia?" Rallies in Moscow in support of and against Boris Yeltsin.

Interview with Ilya Zaslavsky.

Data from a sociological survey by the Public Opinion Foundation on trust in the government and the president.

Vadim Bakatin, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Ruslan Khasbulatov - answer the question: "Do you support the socio-economic policy of the President and the government?".

City streets.

Advertising billboard for the chocolate bar "Mars", a girl playing the flute, passers-by leaving money, a woman begging, rallies with a portrait of Lenin, in support of Yeltsin and Gaidar's reforms.

Grocery store.

Price tag on clothes.

Automobile sign "no entry", street food vendors.

Nikolai Ryzhkov speaks about the need to choose a new course, based on the results of the referendum.

Interview with Valery Zorkin.

Vyacheslav Kostikov - answers the question "Are early elections of the President of Russia necessary?" Sociological forecast data - who do you want to see as president?

Ruslan Khasbulatov, Vadim Bakatin, Vladimir Isakov - answer the question: "Are early elections of people's deputies necessary?".

Guest of the studio - Sergey Kovalev gives a legal assessment of the upcoming referendum, talks about the need to define the state structure and enshrine it constitutionally.

Points out facts of abuse of power by local government bodies.

Video editing: The meeting hall of the tenth Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation.

Logically connected fragments of the deputies' speeches in the hall.