The program consists of four segments.

The first segment is the second episode from the series about a Belarusian historian and ethnographer Mitrafan Doŭnar-Zapol’ski in observation of his 50th death anniversary. Journalist Iazyp Barėika describes the early period of Doŭnar-Zapol’ski’s career as a researcher and professor referring to articles and memoirs of his former students, Aliaksandra Sakovich and Natalia Polons’ka-Vasilenko. (See programs 2000C120.2167 and 2000C120.2170 for the first and third parts of this series.)

In the second segment, speakers read an essay by Paŭliuk Zaluzhny on the 60th anniversary of the first Soviet Constitution which fell on January 31, 1984. Unlike the 60th anniversary of the USSR, it went unnoticed by the Soviet authorities. The Constitutional projects developed by the Belarusian and Ukrainian Constitutional Commissions suggest significant independence for particular republics. (See program 2000C120.2169 for the secong part of this essay.)

The third segment concerns the recent launch of a Soviet ballistic missile, which might be used to deliver chemical warheads. Speakers compare Soviet and American chemical arsenals and inform listeners about the Reagan administration’s decision to resume chemical weapon production.

The fourth segment is information about a Soviet prisoner of war. In accordance with an agreement between the International Red Cross, Soviet government and representatives of Afghan insurgent groups. the prisoner was deported from Afghanistan to an internment camp in Switzerland.