The "People's Platform" was created during the 2002 elections.
Later, it was revived, as they would say at the time, at the numerous requests of workers, who literally "flooded" the Inter TV channel with letters.
Those wishing to express their opinion on this or that issue, so that the whole of Ukraine would know it, gathered daily from 11:00 to 15:00 in the Globus shopping center, which is known to be located under Kiev's Independence Square. On the renewed "... platform" speakers are divided into two groups - "for" and "against". And if earlier there were discussed mainly political issues, then later began to talk about all socially active topics, for example, the attitude of Ukrainian citizens to NATO and the possibility of our country's entry into this organization. Every week the theme changed.
On the air of "Inter" on the "People's Platform" it was possible to get at 7:50, before the morning news, and in the evening, before the final night, every day except weekends.
There were also incidents:
One day, the car in which the TV show “People's Platform. Along with the car, television equipment and equipment disappeared: lighting fixtures, decorations, awnings.
Alexander Pilipets, the head of the People's Platform project, told Interfax-Ukraine at the time that he did not understand who had removed the car and why, as the program had permission to place it near the railway station building and conduct appropriate filming. However, according to him, on Saturday morning the head of the press center of Ukrzaliznytsia Herman Klyucherov demanded to stop filming and remove the finished programs from the air: they say that permission was given for filming a "news program, not a political one." After the journalists did not obey, says Pilipets, the electricity was cut off in the car.
At the same time, Alexei Mustafin, editor-in-chief of the information and analytical service of the Inter TV channel, expressed confidence that such actions do not occur by accident, especially since heavy equipment was used to dismantle the car. "I think it's lawlessness," he said, and promised that the program would be recorded in any case, without succumbing to political pressure.