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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: UNHCR CHIEF OGATA PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
The United Nations refugee chief has called for greater assistance to be given to Chechen refugees in the Caucasus Mountain region in southern Russia.
More than 200-thousand refugees have fled the breakaway republic since...
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RUSSIA: ELECTIONS: POLITICIANS CASTING THEIR VOTE
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russia's main politicians have begun casting their votes in the country's elections for a new Duma, the lower house of parliament.
Voters are choosing from a broad spectrum of 26 parties, with the Communist Party favoured...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: TONY BLAIR ENDS VISIT WITH CAMEO SOAP OPERA ROLE
English/nat
Britain's youthful Premier Minister Tony Blair hasn't stopped since he touched down in Moscow last night.
On his first ever visit to Russia he met with both President Yeltsin, Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and managed to...
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German opposition candidate in Washington DC
1. Edmund Stoiber, German CDU election candidate, walking to speak with reporters
2. SOUNDBITE (German) with English translation, Edmund Stoiber
"The most important part of the discussion involves the situation that the relationship...
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Russia-Foreign Minister on Pakistan's nuclear test
Russian and western intelligence services were caught out by the speed with which Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests, Russia's foreign ministry admitted on Friday (29/05). Official spokesman Valery Nesterushkin told reporters Russia...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BELIEVERS FLOCK TO WITNESS A WEEPING ICON
Russian/Nat
Orthodox believers are flocking to a Moscow church to witness what many say is a minor miracle - a weeping icon of Russia's murdered Tsar Nicholas the Second.
Archpriest Vasily Golovanov of the Ascension Church in the Russian...
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Polls close in presidential elex
1. Exterior Polling Station No. 2378, Moscow
2. Interior polling station, ballot box being brought to the counting table
3. String on ballot box
4. Lid being lifted off ballot box and ballot papers being tipped onto table
5. Observers...
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USA: WASHINGTON: NATO SECRETARY GENERAL JAVIER SOLANA VISIT
English/Nat
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana is in Washington, where he's briefing Clinton administration officials on plans to expand the alliance.
U-S officials say he's likely to focus on talks underway in Paris between NATO and ...
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EU says no let up in Russia sanctions over Ukraine
European Union foreign ministers on Monday ruled out any easing of sanctions against Russia as long as fighting raged in eastern Ukraine, despite concerns about the economic consequences.
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said...
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Preparations under way for referendum, reaction to Putin comments
Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk continued on Wednesday with preparations for holding a controversial referendum to break off ties with Kiev and declare independence.
It comes as Russian President Vladimir...
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Germany - Artist Christo Wraps The Reichstag, Chechnya - Summary Of Events, Turkey - Riots Against Discrimination, Spanish/Canadian Fishing Dispute
Germany - Artist Christo Wraps The Reichstag
Berlin, Germany
WS of Reichstag all wrapped up
Crowd - man wearing t-shirt "Wrapped Reichstag 1971-95"
Christo and wife, Jeanne-Claude, at press conference
GVs of Reichstag
Chechnya - Summary...
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Same sex couples protest Moscow's anti-gay policies at Russian embassies across the region
Protesters gathered in several countries around the world on Sunday in solidarity with Russia's embattled gay community.
The kissing demonstrations, called "To Russia With Love," occurred in 50 cities, according to local media...
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Russia - Young Designers Shock The Fashion World
Moscow, Russia EngComm/Natsot Duration: 1.01"
An array of beautiful, colourful and even shocking styles have hit
the catwalks in Moscow to mark the Russian round of an
international fashion competition. Anyone in the...
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GAZA: HAMAS SUPPORTERS RALLY TO SUPPORT MUSLIM FIGHTERS
Arabic/Nat
Nearly a thousand Hamas supporters staged a rally through the streets of Gaza on Wednesday in support of Muslim fighters in Chechnya.
The march comes just a day after Israeli and Palestinian security forces uncovered a...
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Russia: Relatives: Hijacked Russian aircraft latest
Natural Sound
Relatives of passengers aboard a hijacked plane - which Saudi authorities have stormed rushed to Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Friday to find out the latest information on the condition of their loved ones.
Saudi security...
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WRAP Litvinenko investigation, Reid, Lavrov, police, UK buildings examined
Moscow, Russia - 4 December 2006
1. Wide of plane on tarmac
2. Wide interior pan of airport terminal
3. Close-up of British Airways sign
4. Wide of people waiting for people in arrivals area
5. Mid of man waiting
6. Various of Scotland...
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Vending machine gives free subway ticket in return for 30 squats in run-up to winter Olympics
A vending machine has been set-up at one of Moscow's subway stations that allows people to earn a free ticket by doing squats.
The city officials offer a free travel ticket to anyone who does thirty squats. According to Russian media,...
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BRUNEI: APEC LEADERS BEGIN SUMMIT
English/Nat
Pacific Rim leaders opened their annual summit on Wednesday in Brunei, the tiny, oil-rich sultanate on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, with poor nations vowing to stand firm against rich countries who are pushing for a...
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Chechnya - Reports of continued fighting
The Chechen capital, Grozny, remained a war zone right up until the new
ceasefire apparently negotiated by Russian security chief Alexander Lebed. On Thursday morning (22/8) reports from the devastated city suggested the situation was...
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Yukos shares lower, analyst comments
1. Moscow Interbank Currency exchange (MICEX) exteriors
2. Exchange sign
3. Operation hall
4. Clocks
5. Brokers
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vadim Egorov, MICEX spokesman:
"To midday shares of Yukos fell more than ten percent. Because of that...
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RUSSIA: ROSTOV-ON-DON: COSSACK COLLEGE
Russian/Nat
As Russia's war in Chechnya rages on, Russian Cossacks, a breed of ancient warriors, hopes the wave of anti-Islamic feeling that has swept the country will help restore the status they once enjoyed under the czars.
Cossacks...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIA TALKS SUSPENDED
Nat/Sot
Talks between Russian and Chechen officials on resolving the crisis in Chechnya have been suspended.
It is thought the talks were put on halt to allow Chechen delegates to consider Russia's demands for the disarming of Chechen...
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A prominent rabbi in New York and Ukraine says when he meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday he will urge him to move the G8 economic summit to Kiev rather than allow it to be held in Sochi. (March 3)
A prominent rabbi in New York and Ukraine says when he meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday he will urge him to move the G8 economic summit to Kiev rather than hold it in Sochi.
Rabbi Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich - of the...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: AGREEMENT TO END FIGHTING UPDATE
Moscow & Grozny, Chechnya, 31 July 1995
1. Wideshot delegation at table.
2. Wideshot presser.
3. Cutaway cameras.
4. Cutaway press.
5. Wide shot from side of table.
6. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Gen Kulikov.
7. Wideshot exterior...