In the film Battle for Ukraine Andrei Konchalovsky the famous Russian director analyzes how Ukraine a former part of the Soviet Empire and present big European country struggles to escape from the close embrace of the former big brother Russia and not to become one of the American satellites This extensive study lasted for almost three years Many Ukrainian Russian and American historians politicians and journalists took part in this study as well as the exPresident of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski the exPresident of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster the exPresident of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze the seventh SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations Kofi Annan the exPrime Minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin and the businessman Boris Berezovsky