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Relatives of hostages hold unprecedented demo
1. Pan of demonstrators with banners, with the Kremlin in the background
2. Mid shot of man holding sign reading "Do everything to save the people"
3. Mid shot of policemen
4. Mid shot of woman addressing rally
5. Close shot of sign...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: PREMIER PUTIN RALLIES TROOPS
Russian/Nat
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin rallied Russian troops in Chechnya on Wednesday as they closed in on the breakaway province's capital city of Grozny.
Putin declared that his troops would "fulfill their task to the end,"...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: BOMBING CONTINUES: RUSSIANS SAY 1000 KILLED
Russian/Nat
The Russian government says up to one thousand Chechen troops have been killed over the past two days of fighting east of the Chechen capital Grozny.
APTV cameras captured these graphic pictures of the conflict, as Russian...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CEASEFIRE NEGOTIATIONS ANNOUNCED
Moscow, Russia, 12 August 1996
1. Wide shot press conference
2. Cutaway press
3. Lebed is introduced to conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexander Lebed, Russian Security Chief
5. Cutaway press
6. Wide shot press
7. SOUNDBITE:...
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Chechnya - Yandarbiev Press Conference
The Chechen rebel leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiev on Thursday (16/5)
denounced Russian president Boris Yeltsin's plan to visit the
warr-torn republic this month, calling it a sign of Russian
imperialist ambitions. The Chechen rebel leader...
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CHECHNYA: FEDERAL TROOPS TIGHTEN HOLD
XFA Kurchaloy village, east of Grozny, Chechnya - October 31 1999
1. Shell of a house hit by Russian armour
2. Damaged roof of house
3. People standing and walking in muddy area hit by Russians
4. Child runs down into crater
5....
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN FORCES BOMB CHECHEN VILLAGES
Russian/Nat
Russian forces have bombed a cluster of Chechen villages on the border with Dagestan.
Local Chechen sources say 25 people were killed in the attack, and many more wounded.
Russia sent warplanes to bomb guerrilla camps in...
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+4:3 Ex-policeman on trial in Politkovskaya murder, family reacts
12 December 2012
1. Wide of the Moscow City courtroom where the trial against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov is being held
2. Mid of children of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Vera Politkovskaya and Ilya Politkovsky with their lawyer,...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: CIVILIANS
Russian/Nat
Russia has ruled out imposing direct presidential rule on the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
But its strategy in the region will not change, despite a vote by the Council of Europe to suspend Russia's voting rights, and a...
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RUSSIA: YELTSIN ANNOUNCES HE WILL BE RUNNING FOR A SECOND TERM
Russian/Eng/Nat
A defiant Boris Yeltsin on Thursday announced he would seek a second term as Russia's president despite doubts about his health and his flagging popularity.
In his home town of Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin gave a speech - at...
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Chechnya - Russian/Chechen Peace Talks Resumed
Russian and Chechen negotiators resumed peace talks in Chechnya on
Saturday (15/7) and said they were trying to finalise a deal to
end the seven-month conflict which has killed thousands of people.
The talks are to agree political...
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WRAP Highlights of joint Bush Putin news briefing
1. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George W Bush approach podium
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"We strongly urge North Korea to completely, verifiably and irreversibly end its nuclear...
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Russia/Chechnya - Anatoly Kulikov
Russian Security Council Secretary Alexander Lebed demanded on
Friday (16/8) that President Boris Yeltsin dismiss Interior
Minister Anatoly Kulikov. Lebed called Kulikov one of the "major culprits" of the tragedy in Chechnya.
Kulikov...
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Chechnya - Reports of fighting despite ceasefire
Chechen rebels claimed on Thursday (15/8) that Russian forces violated the ceasefire in the war-torn republic when six jet fighters bombed a village 20 kilometres south of Grozny on Wednesday night. Russian commanders countered with a...
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Chechnya/Russia - Rebels Force Russian Retreat
Chechen rebels in the city centre forced government troops back
Wednesday and were close to wiping out all the gains made by the
Russian army in two weeks of bitter fighting. Russian artillery and rockets pounded the center of Grozny to...
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CHECHNYA: MARTAN-CHU: ALLEGED RUSSIAN ATROCITIES
Russian/Eng/Nat
More allegations of atrocities carried out by Russian troops in Chechnya emerged on Saturday from the village of Martan-Chu in the south of the republic.
It is alleged that a Chechen woman and an ethnic Russian man were...
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RUSSIA: EU REPRESENTATIVE CHECHNYA PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
European Union (EU) representatives in Russia have explained why the E-U decided not to punish Russia with trade sanctions over the Chechnya offensive.
But they said the E-U had decided to suspend 90 (m) million U-S dollars...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CHECHNYA REBELS CONTINUE FIGHTING
Russian/Nat
A day after the closing of registration for the forthcoming elections in Chechnya, rebel fighters say that candidates have been buying votes.
The comments come as Ruslan Khasbulatov, former speaker of the Russian parliament ...
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Russia EU summit, Putin, Prodi and Berlusconi
1. Exterior Villa Madama where the European Union-Russia Summit is taking place
2. Car of Italian President Silvio Berlusconi
3. Berlusconi gets out of car and walks into Villa Madama
4. EU foreign policy representative Javier Solana...
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DAGESTAN: RUSSIAN LAUNCHES NEW AIRSTRIKES
Arabic/Nat
Russian forces launched new air strikes on Saturday in an attempt to dislodge Islamic militants holed up in two villages in the southern republic of Dagestan.
The bombing runs continued for the 14th day in the villages of...
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CHECHNYA: KOMSOMOLSKOYE: RUSSIA REGAINS CONTROL (2)
Russian/Nat
Russian Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev on Wednesday said his forces were finishing up their operation against Chechen fighters in the southern village of Komsomolskoye.
He admitted there was still some resistance in the...
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Chechnya/Russia - Maskhadov at memorial in Grozny
A mass rally in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, on Sunday (23/2) marked the 53rd anniversary of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass deportation of Chechens to Central Asia and Siberia.
Recently-elected President Aslan Maskhadov told the...
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RUSSIA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russia's membership in the Council of Europe could be suspended because of its war in Chechnya according to a foreign European delegation.
The 41-nation Council of Europe, a human rights body that Russia joined in 1996,...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN FORCES PUSH FOR GROZNY
Chechen/Natsot
Russian forces have launched a massive air and artillery offensive on the Chechen capital of Grozny and the nearby town of Argun, in a major push towards the capital of the breakaway republic.
Hundreds of Russian tanks...