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RUSSIA: REACTIONS TO YELTSIN RESIGNATION (4)
Moscow, Russia - December 31, 1999 MX
1. Exterior Christ the Saviour cathedral
2. Patriarch Alexy II and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov coming out
3. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Patriarch Alexy II
4. Reporter
5. SOUNDBITE in Russian Yuri...
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YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE: PATRIARCH PAVLE
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
The influential Serbian Orthodox Church recognized Slobodan Milosevic's opponent Thursday as Yugoslavia's new president-elect, urging him to take control of the country in a peaceful way.
The church appealed to...
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RUSSIA: PRESIDENT YELTSIN TO BACK BILL LIMITING THE NUMBER OF RELIGIONS
Russian/Nat
The Russian president said he might soon back a controversial bill which would limit the number of legal religions in Russia to three.
On his first day back in office after returning from his holidays, Boris Yeltsin met with...
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Kos Pres comments on independence, Serb bishop says it will mean 'occupation'
Pristina, Kosovo
1. Exterior of United Nation building
2. Arrival of President of Albania, Bamir Topi
3. Wide of meeting between Topi and Joachim Rucker, the Special Representative of United Nations Mission in Kosovo
4. Rucker and...
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Catholics gather for Christmas Eve service in capital
1. Priests carrying a statue of the baby Jesus out of the church
2. Wide of priests and church members walking outside of the church towards the manger
3. People standing around the nativity scene
4. Priest shaking holy water on the...
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Memorial service for victims of NATO bombing, Kosovo Serb reax
Belgrade - 24 March 2008
1. Tilt down of St Marko Serbian Orthodox church in Belgrade
2. Wide of Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica and entourage walking towards the church
3. Medium of Vojislav Kostunica with the members of his party...
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Serbs mourn dead from 1990s fighting with Muslims
1. Cemetery in Bratunac
2. Orthodox gravestones
3. Woman crying at the grave
4. Close up of name of her son on the grave
5. Woman crying at the grave
6. Cemetery
7. Another Serb woman wiping her son's grave
8. Cemetery
9. Orthodox priest...
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Church leaders reportedly dismiss Patriarch over property row
Jerusalem
1. Exterior of Greek Orthodox patriarchate, Israeli police standing outside
2. Various of priests entering patriarchate
3. Greek Orthodox priest talking to police officer
4. Greek Orthodox priest walking through Old City
5....
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Armenian community rallies against diplomatic deal with Turkey
1. Tilt down from Armenian church to demonstrators
2. Demonstrators holding banner with image of Mount Ararad, reading (English): "Ararad belongs to Armenia. The day of justice is very soon"
3. Wide of demonstrators listening to speech,...
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KOSOVO: GRACKO: BURIAL OF SERB MASSACRE VICTIMS
Natural Sound
A mass funeral service is underway for the fourteen Serb farmers killed in the village of Gracko in Kosovo late last week.
Hundreds of people were expected to attend Wednesday's service at a sports field in the farmers'...
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Catholics at church, others, analyst comment on anti-Putin protests
1. Wide of Moscow's Pushkinskaya Square, huge Christmas tree
2. Snowy tree-lined path, people walking
3. Mid of people in Moscow street, woman gives money to beggar
4. Mid of traffic lights
5. Mid of Andrei Kortunov, political analyst...
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WRAP 4:3 Seven killed in bomb attack on Coptic church ADDS more
1. Men using mobile phone to film aftermath of explosion, wide of street with firefighters dragging hose from fire engine, trying to put out flames from burning car, widespread chaos, debris, overturned cars, camera moves to position...
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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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BOSNIA: YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT KOSTUNICA VISIT
Natural Sound
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has made the first trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina by a Yugoslav head of state since the outbreak of war there eight years ago.
But his visit strained ethnic sensitivities even before it...
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USA: KOSOVO CRISIS: AMERICAN SERBS IN NATO PROTEST
English/Nat
As the NATO fiftieth anniversary summit marked its second day, the military conflict over Kosovo took a back seat as the 19 member countries discussed the future of the strategic alliance.
But the bombing campaign against...
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Orthodox Christian church marks 1700 years since Edict of Milan
Orthodox Christians in Serbia gathered at an outdoor ceremony on Sunday to mark 1,700 years since Roman emperor Constantine the Great signed the Edict of Milan.
The document was a proclamation that permanently established religious...
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RUSSIA: WWII CEREMONY
Prokhorovka, Russia - May 3, 2000
1. Wide shot officials and dignitaries standing in front of covered statue
2. Mid shot Kuchman, Putin and Lukashenko standing
3. Mid shot statue being unveiled to applause
4. Mid shot Putin...
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Armenian Orthodox Easter celebrated
1. Exterior Church of the Holy Sepulchre
2. People entering church
3. People lighting candles in church
4. Close-up people kissing tomb
5. Church service, people singing
6. Various people praying during service
7. Various church clergy...
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Easter Mass in the Istanbul Fener Orthodox Patriarchate
1. Wide of Church of St George
2. Mid of Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew takes his place at service
3. Wide of church
4. Bartholomew blessing triptych
5. Pan of congregation
6....
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: ORTHODOX CHURCH
Albanian/Nat
For many of the predominantly Muslim Kosovar refugees, the Orthodox church is a symbol of Serb nationalism.
But in the Albanian capital of Tirana, one church has become the hand that feeds them.
The Sunday morning church...
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Pilgrims gather for enthronement of Serbian patriarch
1. Pan right of pilgrims attending ceremony
2. Wide of screen showing ceremony
3. Women buying candles
4. People buying candles
5. Man draped in Serbian flag as Kosovo policeman walks past
6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Vuk Vuksanic, Kosovo...
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RUSSIA: RUSSIAN CATHOLICS PILGRIMAGE
Russian/Eng/Nat
A small group of Russian Catholics have left Moscow for the village of Prohiczya on the Polish-Ukrainian-Belorussian border where Pope John Paul the Second will conduct mass on Thursday.
The ceremony is expected to...
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RUSSIA: SAKHALIN ISLAND EARTHQUAKE: MOSCOW CHURCH SERVICE
Russian/Nat
Officials now say 619 bodies have been pulled from the rubble of the deadly Sakhalin Island earthquake- a Russian news agency reports prosecutors are investigating whether shoddy construction may have contributed to the...
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Punk rock band on trial for hooliganism
Three Russian feminist rockers rejected charges of hooliganism for performing a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral against Vladimir Putin's return as president as a trial against them opened in earnest on Monday (30 JULY 2012.)...