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RUSSIA: RAISA GORBACHEV FUNERAL
Natural Sound
Foreign dignitaries and ordinary Russians have paid their last respects to Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
While Raisa Gorbachev was deeply admired in the West, many Russians...
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CLEAN : "La Cerisaie" with Isabelle Huppert opens the Avignon Theatre festival
French actress Isabelle Huppert opens the 75th edition of the Avignon Festival with Anton Chekhov's "La Ceriseraie", directed by Tiago Rodrigues (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Exiled Russian director Serebrennikov brings "Black Monk" to Avignon
Russian director Kyrill Serebrennikov, who lives in exile in Berlin, is staging his play "The Black Monk", which is freely adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov, in the main courtyard of the Popes' Palace, for the last edition of...
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Myanmar's first international literary festival opens
1. Pan from book to people looking at books for sale
2. Various of people looking at books for sale
3. Close of banner reading (English) "Irrawaddy Literary Festival"
4. Push in to book stand
5. Close of former exiled Burmese writer...
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RUSSIA: GOLD CROSS RESTORED TO SMOLENSKY CATHEDRAL
Russian/Nat
A massive 1-point-five tonne gold cross has been restored on top of Smolensky Cathedral, located in one of Russia's oldest monasteries.
Money for the restoration work came from public and private funding sources.
Smolensky...
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Cemetery where former president is buried opens to public; mourners reax
1. Wide exterior Novodevichy monastery where former Russian president Boris Yeltsin is buried
2. Close-up of the gold domes of the monastery
3. Close-up of Yeltsin's grave with a wooden cross and a picture of the himself, covered with...
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RUSSIA: BRITISH THEATRE COMPANY TAKES CHEKHOV PLAY TO MOSCOW
English/Nat
A British theatre company has taken a Russian play to Moscow and will play to packed houses even though it's being performed in English.
The play is "Ivanov" one of Anton Chekhov's earliest and least known works.
But the man...
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Taiwanese theatre company performs on stage in Moscow
1. Wide of traffic
2. Wide exterior of the "Mossovet Theatre," fountain in foreground
3. Mid of sculpture of Orpheus with a harp
4. Wide of Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Group performing on stage
5. Cutaway cameraman
6. Various of...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: CEMETERIES IN CAPITAL ARE FILLING TO CAPACITY
Russian/Nat
Muscovites are used to shortages but now there's even a queue for a final resting place.
Most of the cemeteries of the Russian capital are filled to capacity and spare land is hard to come by.
The government is giving...
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Argentinian and Chinese artists perform at theatre festival
5 April 2006
1. Mid shot of organisers looking at performers who are running on the wall performing ''Villa Villa'' (Argentinian entry)
2. Mid shot of performers running on the wall
3. Various of artists playing instruments and...
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Preparations at cemetery where Yeltsin will be buried, vox pops
1. Zoom out on wide of Novodevichy Cemetery, where former Russian President Boris Yeltsin will be buried
2. Wide of cemetery gates
3. Close-up of sign
4. Wide of preparations in cemetery
5. People walking into cemetery, guard at...
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SYND 8 2 60 CHEKHOV HOUSE AT MELIKHOVO OPENED AS MUSEUM
In 1892, the famous 19th / 20th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov bought the small country estate of Melikhovo, about forty miles south of Moscow, where he lived until 1899 with his family. Scenes of an exhibition the house, now a...
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Tony-winning actor Brian Dennehy dies at 81
TONY-WINNING ACTOR BRIAN DENNEHY DIES AT 81
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Tony-winning actor Brian Dennehy dies at 81
Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, has died. He was 81.