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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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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: 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.