Why Russia's Kuril Islands, the Arctic, the Arctic Kaliningrad region? How should we relate to territorial and ethnic claims of our neighbours? What we have inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What are Russia's geopolitical interests? On these and many other issues reflects the author of the film.
Dedication to L.N.Gumilev.
Autumn views of St.
Petersburg (embankments, bridges, alleys of parks).
Issue of the News of the Day news magazine No. 5 for February 1983.
Screen saver and titles.
1. The decisions of the party are put into practice.
Special equipment in the quarry, coal mining.
Construction of the BAM, laying of the railway track.
Trucks in front of the factory building.
Launch of a space rocket.
Fishermen raise nets.
The catch is poured onto the deck.
Cotton harvesting.
The release of the anniversary car of the brand "Zaporozhets".
The car is in the yard of the Kommunar plant.
The worker is rocked in his arms.
The orchestra is playing.
The slogan on board the truck.
Pipes on the suspension.
Factory workers.
Cartoons on the stand.
2. The holiday of fraternal peoples.
Demonstration on Red Square.
Evening fireworks on the background of the Kremlin star.
People's faces.
Chronicle of 1991:
Photo collage.
B.N.Yeltsin, L.M.Kravchuk and S.S.Shushkevich sign documents on the formation of the CIS.
Computer graphics: pages of the charter, signatures of politicians, the page turns into a map.
Polyscreen: the mainland is spinning, politicians are applauding.
Avalanche in the mountains.
Computer graphics:
The collapse of the USSR.
Division of industrial, economic and other enterprises by CIS countries.
A space satellite above the Earth.
The planet Earth is approaching, rotating among the stars.
The borders of Russia on the globe after the partition of the territories of the former USSR.
Physical map, borders and relief of Russia.
Mining sites.
Panoramas of the Tyumen region.
Priobskoye oil and gas field (aerial survey).
Frozen equipment.
Workers on the drilling rig.
Panoramas of lakes and swamps.
The sun over the tundra.
Computer graphics:
A lesson in economic geography on examples of the likely seizure of Russian border territories by other states.
States that wished to join Russia.
Explosive situation of the southern borders.
Landing troops from the plane.
Troops are marching along the road.
The APC is driving along the seashore.
Russian and foreign soldiers.
Soldiers walk along the shore.
An armored personnel carrier is coming ashore.
Military helicopter.
Computer graphics:
"Bickford cord" on the southern border, the fire is going out.
The zone of national interests of the USA in the CIS.
US warships in the ocean.
Computer graphics:
The zone of national interests of the USA in the CIS.
The territory of Kazakhstan.
N.A.Nazarbayev is talking to a woman.
Applause of children in folk costumes.
Meeting of the president with children.
Applause from the audience.
Flag of Kazakhstan.
The Palace of virgin lands.
Computer graphics:
The territory of Kazakhstan.
The territory of China, the probability of the spread of the Chinese on the territory of Russia.
The problem of the Kuril Islands.
U.S. activity in the Bering Sea, photograph by E.A.Shevardnadze.
An icebreaker separates the Arctic from Russia.
Map of Russia.
Polyscreen: the mainland is spinning, politicians are applauding.
Avalanche in the mountains.
Computer graphics:
Russia, the countries of Western Europe and Asia.
Formation of cordons along the borders of Russia.
Armband on the sleeve.
Soldiers of the military-political bloc with banners.
Teenagers in camouflage, marching through the city with torches.
Computer graphics: buffer states, formation of the Baltic sanitary cordon.
Chronicle of the late 1930s:
Signing of documents.
Animation: the countries of the sanitary cordon between the Third Reich and the USSR on the map.
Computer graphics:
Expanding the influence of the NATO bloc.
Hotbeds of military conflicts in Central Asia.
Launching rockets.
Explosions.
An explosion in the path of the tank.
Civilians affected by the bombing.
Troops are marching.
Computer graphics: hotbeds of military conflicts, the expected movement of troops to Russia.
Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin.
Chronicle of the 1990s:
Politicians go to the podium.
Applause from the audience.
B.N. Yeltsin.
M.S. Gorbachev.
The August coup of 1991, people on the streets of the city.
Dispersal of the demonstration by the military.
Tanks on the streets, the shooting of the White House in 1993.
The beginning of the war in Chechnya, view of the square.
A boy with a flag in the crowd.
Inscriptions.
Military helicopter.
People are shooting back from the back of a truck.
A crowd of people, crying women.
Soldiers, camera flashes.
Killed in the streets.
An injured woman with a child.
A teenager with a gun.
The wreckage of the truck.
Armed men on the road.
Helicopter explosion in the sky.
Soldiers.
Church acolytes with candles in their hands.
Photo.
Dead soldiers in a tent.
The emblem of the Russian armed forces.
Relatives at the coffin.
Alternation: modern youth at a disco, syringes, a police car, drug addicts.
Nationalist groups.
The State Duma.
Boris Berezovsky.
Participants of rallies.
Soldiers on the streets of cities.
Teenage soldier (freeze frame).
Computer graphics:
The globe in space, the borders of Russia.
Geography lesson, consequences of the transfer of certain border territories to foreign states.
Sea and air routes.
Russian flags on the northern coast of the country, a submarine off the coast.
Launching a missile from a submarine.
Computer graphics: world map.
Outbreaks of military conflicts on the southern borders of Russia.
Meetings of Russian and foreign politicians.
Photo and quote by D.I. Mendeleev.
Animation: a hut in a winter forest, a hut taking off into space, a hut and Emelya on a stove in space, flashes of stars.
Personnel:
Bn Yeltsin. - statesman and political figure, first President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev M. S. -- statesman, politician and public figure, the last General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, the last Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the first President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the only President of the USSR. Kravchuk Leonid M.-candidate of economic Sciences, lecturer, political activist, first President of independent Ukraine. Shushkevich S. S.-doctor of physico-mathematical Sciences, Professor, Honoured science worker of BSSR, politician, head of the Republic of Belarus. Nazarbayev N.. - Kazakhstan's state and political figure, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR, the Kazakh SSR President, the 1st President of Kazakhstan. Clinton D. -- American statesman and politician, 42nd President of the United States.
Calendar: 1983 1991 1993 1930s
Locations: Russia [1] Moscow [820] St. Petersburg [814] Tyumen region [809] The Chechen Republic [756] Belarus [845] Kazakhstan [114] Arctic [941]
Seasons: Summer [824] Autumn [826] Winter [823]