when people started to circulate petitions to remove the old opening logo, vid released a version in 1999 which featured a match being struck, the smoke of which formed the vid logo, although there are no videos of this online. in 2000, a new version of the ident was produced, featuring a smaller version of the logo on a yellow background with the text "vid television company presents" (albeit in russian). in 2002, the mask logo was changed from white to gold.