"Было время" / Черкесск ( 5-й выпуск 1997 год )

The retrospective program "There Was a Time" explores events, people, and phenomena in the social life of Karachay-Cherkessia that have already become its history. The fifth episode covers 1997. The republic, like the rest of the country, continues to face a difficult socioeconomic situation. However, the main reason for this is that a series of large-scale political transformations in Russia were already behind us. But not for Karachay-Cherkessia; its peoples still faced difficult trials and tests of strength. It was in 1997 that the preconditions for this began to manifest themselves in the republic's socio-political life. The event of the year was the election of Stanislav Derev, founder of the Mercury company, as mayor of Cherkessk.