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RUSSIA: BORIS YELTSIN LEAVES MOSCOW FOR CIS MEETING
Russian/Nat
Commonwealth of Independent States leaders will meet in Kazakhstan tomorrow (Friday). The meeting could herald a return to a form of economic Soviet Union with Russia firmly in control.
While the states do not want to lose...
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Opposition figures comment on election, preps for protest
1. Wide of police
2. Wide of Lubyanka square, where demonstration was originally planned (it was subsequently moved)
3. Mid of group of police walking
4. Opposition activist getting flags ready
5. Reverse view of police walking with...
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Outgoing British ambassador comments on bilateral relations
26 September, 2008
1. Wide of UK Ambassador to Russia Antony Brenton in radio studio
2. Various Brenton talking with radio show host
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Antony Brenton, UK Ambassador to Russia:
"To sort out Litvinenko is going to be...
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Japanese FM continues visit
1. Limousine arriving
2. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi getting out of limousine and shaking hands
3. Handshaking with factory managers
4. Factory building
5. Yoriko Kawaguchi in a section of the factory
6. Kawaguchi...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the United States welcomes Russia's pledge to stop its attacks in Georgia and called on Moscow to follow through on its promise.
HEADLINE: Rice calls for attacks in Georgia to stop
CAPTION: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the United States welcomes Russia's pledge to stop its attacks in Georgia and called on Moscow to follow through on its...
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Spanish Crown Prince visits Moscow
1. Plane on tarmac
2. Exterior of Moscow airport terminal
3. Cutaway to dispatcher
4. Crown prince Felipe getting out of plane and is met by the Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov
5. Wide shot of plane
6. Cutaway to photographers
7....
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN VISIT
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U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan has arrived in Moscow for talks on the Russian military offensive in rebel Chechnya and a range of international issues.
Annan is scheduled to meet acting President Vladimir Putin, Foreign...
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RUSSIA/BELARUS: BELARUSSIAN SOLDIERS THAT STAYED WITH ROCKET UNIT
Russian/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin is pushing hard to give the go ahead the planned reunification of Russia and neighbouring Belarus.
The Kremlin said he was anxious to sign a Union Treaty with his opposite number Alexander...
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Candidates for Presidential elections
1. Wide shot pan interior atrium Central Election Commission
2. Close-up Central Election Commission sign
3. Wide shot meeting of the Central Election Commission
4. Mid shot meeting of the Central Election Commission
5. Mid shot...
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Israeli PM Sharon meets Russian FM Ivanov for talks
1. Wide shot exterior of Russian ministry of foreign affairs
2. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon entering hall and shaking hands with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
3. Cutaway media
4. Sharon and Ivanov walking up stairs
5....
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Six-party talks envoys meet for working level meeting on North Korea
1. Wide exterior of one of Russian Foreign Ministry's buildings
2. Members of six way working group walking in garden
3. Various of group posing for photographs
4. Wide of group seated for talks
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: UNHCR CHIEF OGATA PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
The United Nations refugee chief has called for greater assistance to be given to Chechen refugees in the Caucasus Mountain region in southern Russia.
More than 200-thousand refugees have fled the breakaway republic since...
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RUSSIA: ELECTIONS: POLITICIANS CASTING THEIR VOTE
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russia's main politicians have begun casting their votes in the country's elections for a new Duma, the lower house of parliament.
Voters are choosing from a broad spectrum of 26 parties, with the Communist Party favoured...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: TONY BLAIR ENDS VISIT WITH CAMEO SOAP OPERA ROLE
English/nat
Britain's youthful Premier Minister Tony Blair hasn't stopped since he touched down in Moscow last night.
On his first ever visit to Russia he met with both President Yeltsin, Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and managed to...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BELIEVERS FLOCK TO WITNESS A WEEPING ICON
Russian/Nat
Orthodox believers are flocking to a Moscow church to witness what many say is a minor miracle - a weeping icon of Russia's murdered Tsar Nicholas the Second.
Archpriest Vasily Golovanov of the Ascension Church in the Russian...
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Polls close in presidential elex
1. Exterior Polling Station No. 2378, Moscow
2. Interior polling station, ballot box being brought to the counting table
3. String on ballot box
4. Lid being lifted off ballot box and ballot papers being tipped onto table
5. Observers...
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EU says no let up in Russia sanctions over Ukraine
European Union foreign ministers on Monday ruled out any easing of sanctions against Russia as long as fighting raged in eastern Ukraine, despite concerns about the economic consequences.
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said...
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Same sex couples protest Moscow's anti-gay policies at Russian embassies across the region
Protesters gathered in several countries around the world on Sunday in solidarity with Russia's embattled gay community.
The kissing demonstrations, called "To Russia With Love," occurred in 50 cities, according to local media...
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Russia - Young Designers Shock The Fashion World
Moscow, Russia EngComm/Natsot Duration: 1.01"
An array of beautiful, colourful and even shocking styles have hit
the catwalks in Moscow to mark the Russian round of an
international fashion competition. Anyone in the...
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Russia: Relatives: Hijacked Russian aircraft latest
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Relatives of passengers aboard a hijacked plane - which Saudi authorities have stormed rushed to Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Friday to find out the latest information on the condition of their loved ones.
Saudi security...
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WRAP Litvinenko investigation, Reid, Lavrov, police, UK buildings examined
Moscow, Russia - 4 December 2006
1. Wide of plane on tarmac
2. Wide interior pan of airport terminal
3. Close-up of British Airways sign
4. Wide of people waiting for people in arrivals area
5. Mid of man waiting
6. Various of Scotland...
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Vending machine gives free subway ticket in return for 30 squats in run-up to winter Olympics
A vending machine has been set-up at one of Moscow's subway stations that allows people to earn a free ticket by doing squats.
The city officials offer a free travel ticket to anyone who does thirty squats. According to Russian media,...
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Yukos shares lower, analyst comments
1. Moscow Interbank Currency exchange (MICEX) exteriors
2. Exchange sign
3. Operation hall
4. Clocks
5. Brokers
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vadim Egorov, MICEX spokesman:
"To midday shares of Yukos fell more than ten percent. Because of that...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIA TALKS SUSPENDED
Nat/Sot
Talks between Russian and Chechen officials on resolving the crisis in Chechnya have been suspended.
It is thought the talks were put on halt to allow Chechen delegates to consider Russia's demands for the disarming of Chechen...