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RUSSIA: YELTSIN FACING IMPEACHMENT
Moscow, Russia, May 15, 1999
1. Wide shot, State Duma
2. Protesters
3. Close-up, protesters
4. Posters slamming Yeltsin
5. Communist Duma deputies shake hands with protesters
6. Protesters
7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Tamara...
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Chechnya - Fighting continues despite ceasefire
Reports from Grozny on Sunday (18/8) told of renewed skirmishes around the Chechen capital, despite continuing moves aimed at finalising details of a ceasefire pact. An informal, and shaky, truce took effect in the battered Chechen...
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Chechnya - Bombs Fall On Grozny/Aftermath
Four bombs fell on a central area of the Chechen capital Grozny on Monday (December 26), entirely destroying four apartment buildings and a kindergarten. Non-stop artillery fire could be heard from Grozny. Bursts of heavy machinegun...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RENEWED OPTIMISM ON ENDING THE WAR
Russian/Nat
There's renewed optimism that peace talks in Ingushetia on ending the war in neighbouring Chechnya may succeed in ending the two-month conflict.
But even before peace has broken out, the Russian government has set up a...
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USA: CONCERN OVER ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN CHECHNYA
English/Nat
The Clinton administration has expressed concern over the escalating violence in Chechnya and urged the Russian government to open a dialogue with rebel leaders.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said the latest round of...
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RUSSIA: PRESIDENT YELTSIN'S CHECHNYA PEACE PLAN CRITICISED
Russian/Eng/Nat
Too little, too late -- that's the charge leveled against Russian President Boris Yeltsin's proposed peace plan with Chechnya.
Yeltsin's main opponent in the forthcoming elections, Communist Party leader Gennady ...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: FIGHTING CONTINUES DESPITE CEASEFIRE
Russian/Nat
Fighting still continues in the Chechen capital Grozny this morning despite a ceasefire brokered by Russian and Chechen commanders last night.
In an interview with APTV, the Chechen rebel leader, Akhmed Zakayev, said the...
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Chechnya - Bitter fighting continues
Fighting in the war torn capital of Chechnya entered its seventh day on Monday (12/8) and gave no signs of letting up. Shots rang out throughout the Staropromyslovksy region of the city, as local residents cowered in housefronts and...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSLAN KHASBULATOV POLITICAL COMEBACK
Russian/Nat
On the eve of the second anniversary of the bloody battles in which Russian President Boris Yeltsin asserted his authority over parliament, one of his former bitter rivals was launching a political comeback.
But former...
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Chechnya/Russia - Fighting
Rebels repel Russians after fierce street fighting;
POWs paraded; Presidential Palace protected
Chechen rebels fought street-by-street battles with Russian troops
for control of the breakaway republic's capital of Grozny on
Monday (2/1),...
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Chechnya - Russian POWs Release Defuses Crisis
Dzhokhar Dudayev, leader of the separatist Chechen republic, said
Tuesday (6/12) he would release all Russian prisoners captured
during a rebel assault on the Chechen capital of Grozny. Seven
prisoners were released Tuesday, and arrived...
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WRAP Police detain senior Chechen rebel envoy after conference
Moscow - October 30
1. Wide exterior State Duma
2. Wide of media and Gennady Seleznyov, Speaker of lower-chamber of Russian parliament
3. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Gennady Seleznyov, Speaker of lower-chamber of Russian parliament
"It is a...
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RUSSIA: FORMER GENERAL LEV ROKHLIN DIES OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS
Natural Sound
A staunch critic of Russian president Boris Yeltsin, former General Lev Rokhlin, has died of gunshot wounds.
The Russian news agency says he was killed by his wife using his own gun - but neither the police nor the...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: REFUGEES: FUTURE UNCERTAIN
Russian/Nat
The war in Chechnya has driven a wedge between the local ethnic Russian and Chechen communities.
But one family says the fighting has only brought them closer together.
Said Mukarov and his wife Natalia work as doctors in a...
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Austria - OSCE Meeting On Chechnya
Ambassadors of the 53-nation Organisation for Security and
Cooperation In Europe (OSCE) met in Vienna on Thursday (12/1) to
discuss the war in Chechnya. The delegates were expected to
receive a report from OSCE envoy Istvan Gyarmarti,...
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RUSSIA: HEAVILY ARMED GUNMEN ATTACK SOUTH RUSSIAN CITY
Russian/Nat
Heavily armed gunmen believed to be Chechen rebels attacked a southern Russian city Wednesday - seizing up to 300 hostages after gun battles with security forces that left dozens dead.
Russian officials say the gunmen were...
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Chechnya - Search for dead bodies
Some survivors of the siege of war-torn Grozny are faced with a horrible and difficult task - trying to remove the remains of their loved ones from the rubble of the many buildings that continue to be bombed by Russian forces. This...
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Chechnya/Russia - Argun Hit; Yeltsin At Army Day M
Gunships hit Argun; Yeltsin at Army Day memorial
Their tanks having cut the last highway into the Chechen capital, Grozny earlier this week, Russian forces have now turned their guns against outlying towns and villages to the south, east...
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Chechnya - Service held for victims
Friends and relatives of six International Red Cross workers who were killed in Chechnya on Tuesday stood in the snow and cried as a small mourning service was held on Wednesday (18/12).
The service was held before the bodies of the...
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CHECHNYA: GROZNY: CHECHEN PILGRIMS SET OFF TOWARDS MECCA
Russian/Nat
The first group of Chechen pilgrims set off from the capital Grozny to Mecca, Wednesday, after Russia lifted a ban on foreign travel from the breakaway republic earlier this week.
The Kremlin allowed seven charter...
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Chechnya - Intense fighting continues
Serious fighting continues on the front line in the centre of the Chechen capital Grozny despite a ceasefire announced last week.
Aerial of Grozny;
Two Russian soldiers launching mortars;
Soldiers running towards building;
Soldiers...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT UPDATE (2)
German/Eng/Nat
SUPER CAPTION: (English)
"Yes we are demanding an immediate and long-term ceasefire. We do not - are not - looking for some kind of short-term ceasefire that would allow people to leave - although we believe people...
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Chechnya - Russia Launches Major Assault
Outskirts burn as Russia launches major assault
Russian ground forces broke into Grozny on Saturday (31/12) after
launching a ferocious assault on the Chechen capital. Heavy
artillery and rocket fire ahead of the advance set...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: ASLAN MASKHAEV :CHECHEN DEFENCE MINISTER
Russian/Nat
Defiant Chechens say they're a long way from giving up their fight against the Russians.
The Chechen Defence Minister made that clear Thursday, after his fighters abandoned their presidential palace in Grozny.
Colonel Aslan...