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CLEAN : Tajikistan prepares for presidential elect
CLEAN : Tajikistan prepares for presidential elect
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Tajikistan fights IS influence with traditional dress
More and more women in Tajikistan are wearing the Atlas a traditional colourful dress at the request of a government that hopes to limit the infatuation for Islamic clothing and fight the influence of the so called Islamic State
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Russia wraps up war games near Tajik-Afghan border (2)
Russia rounds off joint military exercises in Tajikistan with high-octane war games, as the Taliban set their sights on full control of northern provinces across the border in Afghanistan (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Russia concludes war games near Tajik-Afghan border
Russia rounds off joint military exercises in Tajikistan with high-octane war games, as the Taliban set their sights on full control of northern provinces across the border in Afghanistan (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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TAJIKISTAN: PRES RAKHMONOV IN TALKS WITH CHINA'S JIANG
Mandarin/Nat
Chinese President Jiang Zemin held formal talks with Tajikistani President Emomali Rakhmonov on Tuesday morning.
Jiang arrived in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe on Monday evening for a summit with the presidents of Russia,...
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AFGHANISTAN: EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS WAIT DESPERATELY FOR SUPPLIES (3)
Afghan/English/Nat
Warm weather is hampering efforts to deliver desperately needed aid to victims of last week's earthquake in Afghanistan.
With temperatures rising to up to 60 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, heavy snowfalls have melted,...
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UZBEKISTAN: ATTEMPTS MADE TO CONFINE AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT
Russian/Nat
Worried by the victory of Islamic rebels in Afghanistan, Russian and central Asian leaders declared Friday they intend to keep the conflict from spreading across their borders.
Meeting in Kazakhstan the leaders of the former...
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Russia - Tajik/Afghan Border Policing Plea
Russia appealed to the United Nations on Wednesday (19/4) to help
the Commonwealth of Independent States police the border between
Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev told a meeting of Tajik government...
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Russia - Afghan veterans hold reunion
Russian veterans of the war in Afghanistan, including the Russian general who commanded the Soviet army there, held a reunion in Moscow on Saturday (5/10) and talked about recent changes in the country.
Concert hall exterior, arrivals of...
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Main Karzai challengers backs off boycott
1. Various of Kabul street scenes with security on streets and women in burqas
2. Wide exterior of Kabul vote-counting centre
3. Various of ballot boxes being opened inside centre
4. Various of ballot papers being sorted
5. Set up shot...
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RUSSIA: CUSTOMS UNION
Natural Sound
President Boris Yeltsin and the leaders of four other former Soviet republics have agreed to expand and strengthen a customs union with the aim of reviving their economies.
But the five countries face such a wide array of...
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Foreign ministers from Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet
1. Various of foreign ministers and senior officials of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) posing for group photo
2. Wide of meeting
3. Mid of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi
4. Mid of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...
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Bodies recovered from site of airline crash, no survivors reported
Shakar Darah, north of Kabul
1. Mid of helicopter taking off
2. Aerials of area north of Kabul
3. Aerial of mountains
4. Aerial of bodies on the ground
5. Covered bodies
6. Various of Afghan soldiers carrying bodies to helicopter
7....
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4:3 Survivors of landslide which killed hundreds, aid arriving
Hundreds of families are struggling to get food and shelter in a remote part of Afghanistan on Monday, after being left homeless by a landslide which killed hundreds of people.
Despite an aid convoy arrived in the village of Abi Barik in...
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Shanghai Group summit begins
1. Wide shot and pan on Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - foreign ministers walking by to enter room for group photo
2. Medium shot Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov shaking hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan
3....
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Russia - Situation of Taliban
Forces of the anti-Taliban alliance are poised to seize back lost territory in northern Afghanistan, a top alliance diplomat in Moscow claimed on Thursday (6/8).
WS exterior Afghan embassy, Moscow,
CU sign of embassy,
WS alliance...
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Leaders of Eurasian Economic Community countries meet
1. Wide shot Russian President Vladmir Putin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko
2. Mid shot Putin, Lukashenko
3. Cutaway reporters
4. Putin meeting Lukashenko, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov, Kazakh President Nursultan...
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China - Yeltsin Signs Border Treaty
Five-nation border treaty signed
Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Friday (26/4) arrived in the
Chinese port of Shanghai to sign a five-nation treaty on
demilitarising the border between China and the former Soviet
Union. The treaty to...
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CHINA: SHANGHAI: YELTSIN SIGNS CENTRAL ASIAN BORDER AGREEMENT
Eng/Russian/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin has signed a Central Asian Border Agreement with China and three former Soviet states.
The Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan all...
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Tajikistan-Refugees Return To Build A Better Life
Tajikistan Natsot Duration: 2.51"
Before the break-up of the Soviet Union, few people in the west
had heard of Tajikistan. The civil war which broke out after it
gained independence in 1991, ensured it made the...
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Tajikistan-Clashes between troops and rebels
Clashes continue between government troops and Islamic opposition rebels in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe. Three shells exploded, albeit harmlessly, near the presidential palace. Both government troops and opposition fighters withdrew...
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Food aid distributed to displaced families after fatal mudslide
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing food aid to survivors of a landslide that killed hundreds of people in the village of Abi Barik, in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province.
700 families were displaced when...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DRUG CONTROL OPENS
English/Nat
Drug enforcement officials from across the globe gathered in Moscow Wednesday for the opening of the International Conference on Drug Control.
The U-N Drug Control Programme - which sponsors the two-day conference - hopes to...
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Leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation nations meet
1. Various of Tajikistan Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov walking in to shake hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
2. Cutaway of camera
3. Various of Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov walking in to shake hands with Wen
4. Russian...