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RUSSIA: BORIS YELTSIN OFFERS ULTIMATUM TO CHECHNYA GOVERNMENT
Eng/Russian/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin has offered
his Chechen opposite number a last chance to avoid a full-scale
Russian assault on the beleaguered city of Grozny.
Yeltsin has told Djokhar Dudayev if his fighters lay down...
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RUSSIA: GERMAN CHANCELLOR KOHL ARRIVES TO VISIT PRESIDENT YELTSIN
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German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Moscow on Saturday for a private visit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
The visit comes just two days after Yeltsin announced he would
undergo heart surgery.
As soon as the...
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Chechnya/Russia - Situation
Yeltsin rules out talks with Dudayev
Chechen rebels in the city centre of Grozny on Wednesday (18/1)
claimed to have forced back government troops, saying they were
close to wiping out all the gains made by the Russian army in two
weeks...
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CHECHNYA: KOMSOMOLSKOYE VILLAGE
Russian/Nat
The village of Komsomolskoye was the scene of heavy fighting in March of this year and was completely destroyed during the war with Russia.
As the year ends life in what remains of the settlement is perilous.
The village of...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: LATEST SITUATION
Russian/Nat
Grozny came under one of the most intense Russian attacks yet on Monday.
Shells rained down on the centre of the city and waves of Russian helicopter gunships and jets carried out repeated aerial bombardments.
But Chechen...
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CHECHNYA: HUNT FOR NEW ZEALAND AID WORKER CONTINUES
English/Nat
The hunt for an aid worker from New Zealand who was kidnapped near Chechnya continues.
Red Cross worker Geraldo Cruz Ribeiro was snatched over the weekend in the Russian town of Nalchik, situated near the breakaway...
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Chechnya - Situation One Year Ago
One year ago today, Russian Federal Forces were preparing to invade the breakaway Republic of Chechnya, in Russia's Northern Caucasus. The capital city of Grozny was reduced to rubble by bombing from federal planes, as were many small...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: LATEST SITUATION
Russian/Nat
US President Bill Clinton is urging the Russians to find a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Chechnya.
In a telephone call to Boris Yeltsin, he told the Russian President that he should take note of international...
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CHECHNYA: GROZNY: HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES (2)
Russian/Nat
Heavy fighting continued in and around the Chechen capital Grozny on Monday with Russian troops pressing ahead with a military onslaught aimed at crushing the rebels' resistance.
Federal aircraft targeted Grozny, where ground...
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Chechnya - Military Hospitals Treat Casualties
Military hospitals in Chechnya were being prepared on Friday
(9/12) to deal with heavy casualties. Chechen military commanders
placed the hospitals on alert after reports that leaders of the
Russian-backed opposition would resume...
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Chechnya - Assassination attempt
Chechen rebel leader Salman Raduyev, a candidate in Chechnya's January 27 presidential elections, on Thursday (24/1) claimed Russian forces tried to kill him. Raduyev and his press secretary said a radio-controlled mine was detonated on...
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Chechnya - Bombardment Eases, More Reinforcements
Russian forces again shelled the Chechen-controlled areas of
Minutka and Lenin Square in Grozny on Tuesday (24/1). Residents in
the centre huddled in basements without power or water. But in
other areas controlled by Russian forces the...
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Chechnya's Foreign Minister accuses Russia of genocide against his people.
1. Wide shot press conference
2. Cutaway press
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian): Ilyas Akhmadov, Chechen Foreign Minister "Many of the bodies had been decomposing for less than two months, among them were women and children, many of them had...
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RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: CHILDREN STILL FACE AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Russian/Nat
As Chechnya struggles to rebuild its war torn cities, ordinary citizens face their own battle for survival.
Fresh elections in January hold the promise of a new beginning, but those too young to vote still face an uncertain...
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Chechnya - Dudayev Mourned
Relatives and followers of the Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar
Dudayev gathered at his brother's house in the Chechen capital
Grozny on Friday (26/4) to mourn their leader's death. Dudayev was
killed in a Russian shelling attack...
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Russian soldiers remembered
00:00 Soldiers with wreathes
00:05 Putin at ceremony
00:11 Wreaths being laid
00:23 Close up guards
00:27 Putin approaches wreathes
00:40 Eternal flame
00:44 Wide of demo
00:49 Mid shot demo
00:55 Men in uniform carrying flags
00:59...
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RUSSIA: LIMITED TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM CHECHNYA
Russian/Nat
With Russian generals claiming their offensive against Chechen fighters is all but over, the first evidence of at least a limited troop withdrawal from the rebel republic was put on show on Thursday.
In a staged welcoming...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: AUTHORITIES TO USE FORCE TO RESTORE ORDER
Nat/Sot
The Russian foreign minister has warned that Moscow will use whatever means necessary to restore order in Chechnya if peace talks break down.
Russian planes buzzed the Chechen capital and there were sporadic clashes today ...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: SHELLING
Russian/Nat
The Russian army on Tuesday claimed to have ousted Chechen rebels from their last remaining mountain stronghold of Shatoi, in an operation which federal commanders said marked the end of the full-scale war.
But despite the...
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Graves being prepared and funerals begin
1. Wide shot of grave site
2. Pan of grave diggers
3. Various of grave diggers
4. Van doubling as makeshift hearse pulls in carrying coffins
5. Various of grave diggers
6. Wide of vans carrying coffins
7. Wide of vans pulling into grave...
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WRAP French FM on headscarves and Chechnya
1. Wide shot exterior Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow
2. Wide shot French Foreign Minister Dominique De Villepin and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov entering room
3. Cutaway media
4. Mid shot De Villpepin and French delegation
5....
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RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: ORTHODOX CHURCH STRUGGLES TO RISE OUT OF RUBBLE
Russian/Nat
As the residents of Grozny celebrate their first New Year without the Russian Army, the Russian Orthodox church is struggling to rise out of the rubble.
The Russian church is trying to administer to the spiritual needs of...
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Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, Afghanistan, Angola, Chechnya
King Norodom Sihanouk arriving in Beijing, off plane supported by helper;
(Government troops take Khmer stronghold)
rear shot government troops firing artillery gun;
target in jungle to left of hut being hit by shelling,...
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RUSSIA: US AID WORKER KENNETH GLUCK LATEST
English/Nat
Three days after U-S aid worker Kenneth Gluck was released from captivity in Chechnya, questions still remain around the circumstances surrounding his abduction.
A happy but tired Gluck met reporters on Tuesday but avoided...