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RUSSIA: BORIS YELTSIN TO JOIN FORCES WITH RIVAL ELECTION CANDIDATE
Russian/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced he'll be joining forces with rival election candidate, Grigory Yavlinsky, to win next month's Presidential race.
The Russian leader - who's neck and neck with Communist leader Gennady...
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Russia - Anti Terrorism Preparations
Since the start of the Russian war against Chechnya in 1994, Russia has had to face an increasing number of attacks on civilians. Russian security forces have responded by setting up special units to combat violence.Two bomb scares in...
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RUSSIA: COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Russian/Eng/Nat
The Council of Europe, the world's largest club of parliamentary democracies, is set to vote on a motion to suspend Russia over its Chechnya campaign.
Lawmakers from 41 nations were scheduled to vote on Thursday on a...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Russian anti torture group to close over 'foreign agent' tag
CLEAN : Russian anti torture group to close over 'foreign agent' tag
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : After clashes involving Chechen community, protesters ask for resignation of local official
Demonstrators in Dijon ask for the resignation of the prefect of the Côte d'Or department, after recent tensions in the city, which began with a punitive expedition by members of the Chechen community against Dijonians of North African...
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CHECHNYA: ISLAMIC REBELS TARGET NOT CIVILIANS
Natural Sound
Russian military officials insist they are targetting Islamic militants in the breakaway province of Chechnya - not civilians.
But Chechen officials say more than four-thousand civilians have been killed
since Russia...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CLASHES WRAP
Russian/Nat
Nightfall has brought an end to sporadic clashes between Russian invaders and Chechen troops in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
The clashes overshadowed peace talks in neighbouring North Ossetia between Russian delegates...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: POSSIBLE POLIO EPIDEMIC
Russian/Nat
A European diplomat brokering peace talks in Chechnya cast doubt Friday on the prospects of an end to the war, citing mistrust on both sides at the negotiating table.
The comments by Sandor Meszaros of Hungary underlined the...
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Chechnya- Russian soldiers refuse to abandon post
In Chechnya, twenty Russian soldiers marooned on Sunday(25/8) at a checkpoint completely surrounded by Chechen fighters are refusing to give up their weapons and abandon their post.
Chechen fighters drive past the concrete reinforced...
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FRANCE: ALAIN JUPPE SEEKS EU APPROACH TO HALT FIGHTING IN CHECHNYA
English
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says his country is to seek a collective European Union approach to halt the fighting in Chechnya.
Condemning Moscow's continued use of force and the mounting number of civilian casualties in...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GRIGOR YAVLINKSY INTERVIEW IN LONDON
English
No one from the current Russian administration involved in the Chechen offensive will escape with his political life, according to one Kremlin watcher .
Grigor Yavlinsky, who used to be a senior advisor to Boris Yeltsin says the...
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RUSSIA: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF KALASHNIKOV AK 47 MACHINE GUN
Russian/Nat
Half a century since the first AK-47 machine guns went into production and the world is still firing away.
At the international arms fair this week in Abu-Dhabi, Kalashnikovs will once again be one of Russia's hottest...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: POSSIBLE TERRORIST ATTACKS PLANNED
Russian/Nat
Russian Police have been put on alert after receiving reports that terrorists linked to Chechen rebels are planning attacks in Moscow.
According to state run media two Chechen warlords have ordered their supporters to begin...
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Chechnya - Chechens Vow To Uphold Resistance
Chechen Vice-President Zelimkhan Yandarbiev on Sunday (5/3) vowed
that resistance to the Russian offensive in Chechnya would
continue until all land occupied by the Russian army was
liberated. "Peace cannot be reached when half of...
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Chechnya - Identification Of Decomposing Corpses
Dozens of corpses have been found under the ruins of buildings in
Grozny during the clearing up of the destroyed Chechen capital.
The corpses are being moved to the central cemetery for
identification. Relatives of those still missing...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: OSCE DISCUSSES CHECHNYA WITH FM
Russian/Nat
Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told the president of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), on Thursday he had not closed the door on peaceful negotiations to end the conflict in...
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Secretary of State interview
1. US Secretary of State Colin Powell, greeting reporters and sitting down for interview
2. Reporter writing notes
3. Wide shot of Powell being interviewed
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State:
"(Talking about...
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RUSSIA: RADUYEV ADDRESS CHECHEN RALLY
Voice and effects
Thousands of supporters of one of Russia's most wanted terrorists packed central Grozny on Thursday in a massive anti-war demonstration.
Salman Raduyev, a notorious Chechen field commander and veteran of the 1994-'96...
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Chechnya - Heavy Fighting Rages In Grozny
wide across city, smoke/ people and soldiers running across
street/ audio shelling/ damaged appartment block / camera stumbles as
shots fired/ troops across street, one cheers/ soldier walks with
chair then sits in it / soldiers cross...
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WRAP Funeral for slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Merkel, Putin comments
AP Television
Moscow, Russia
1. High shot of mourners by the coffin
2. Mid shot of coffin
3. Mid shot of family
4. High shot of wreaths
5. Wide shot of funeral procession
6. Mid shot of mourners
7. Close-up of portrait of Anna...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: FUNERAL OF EX GENERAL LEV ROKHLIN
Russian/Nat
Several thousand Russians have attended a funeral ceremony for an ex-general who was among President Boris Yeltsin's most outspoken foes.
They included military officers and politicians.
Lev Rokhlin, 51, was killed at his...
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RUSSIA: DEPUTIES CRITICISE GOVERNMENT OVER CHECHNYA OPERATION
Russian/Nat
Russian politicians, just back from a fact-finding trip to Grozny, have criticised their Government for failing to mount an effective humanitarian aid operation in Chechnya.
At a news conference in Moscow one State deputy...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: IRISH PM AHERN MEETS VLADIMIR PUTIN
Eng/Russ/Nat
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has blamed Islamist extremists in Chechnya for three recent bomb explosions in Moscow, which have killed 275 people.
Putin made the accusation after meeting Irish Prime Minister, Bertie...
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RUSSIA: GOVERNMENT VOTE TO END WAR IN CHECHNYA
Russian/Nat
Russian lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to adopt a motion banning the use of the army in Chechnya.
The government has been trying to scale down the involvement of the army in the breakaway republic - it wants to rely on...