AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Uzbekistan: Samarkand ahead of summit in challenge to West
Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are gathering with other Asian leaders in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand for a regional summit touted as a challenge to Western global influence (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian Police, Broadcasts Return To Long-Occupied City
A Ukrainian police chief said some 200 officers were at work in Kherson, setting up checkpoints and documenting evidence of possible war crimes.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Missile barrage across Ukraine for Putin's 'own survival': analyst
An analyst at London's Chatham House think-tank says Russian president Vladimir Putin is turning to "ever-more desperate measures" to ensure his "political survival" and give the country confidence in him again, after Russian forces...
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Presidential candidate Tymoshenko meets 6,000 regional representatives on deteriorating situation
Around 6-thousand regional representatives from all over Ukraine gathered in Kiev on Monday to discuss ways to further regional self-government and the decentralisation of power.
The meeting was organised by former Ukrainian Prime...
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Norwegian Prime Minister comments on Kursk sinking.
Moscow, June 19, 2001
1. Various views of wreath laying ceremony - soldiers marching slowly carrying the wreath, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and others behind
2. Band playing
3. Close-up of Jens Stoltenberg walking
4....
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Leader of opposition Gary Kasparov gives interview to radio
1. Wide of Gary Kasparov, leader of opposition, in radio studio
2. TV monitor
3. Pan from radio DJ to Kasparov
4. Kasparov's hands
5. Cameraman
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Kasparov, leader of Russian opposition:
"The country is facing a...
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Nearly two decades after the Soviet collapse set Russia's roulette wheels spinning again, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling in the chips on the gambling industry, a symbol of the glitz and excess of Russia's oil-fueled boom
HEADLINE: Russian casinos to cash in their chips
CAPTION: Nearly two decades after the Soviet collapse set Russia's roulette wheels spinning again, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling in the chips on the gambling industry, a symbol...
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US Sec of State and US Defence Secretary visit
1. Wide of interior of hall in Novo-Ogaryovo with Russian officials entering for talks
2. Cutaway of Russian national emblem
3. Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US...
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Highlights of bilateral news conference
1. Bush and Putin walking together
2. Bush and Putin walking up to podium
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President
"I have informed President Putin that the United States will reduce our operationally deployed strategic...
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Putin meets chief executive of British Petroleum
1. Wide shot Kremlin
2. Wide shot interior Kremlin as Russian President Vladimir Putin enters, shakes hands with BP Chief Executive Lord Browne, and shakes hands with Mikhail Fridman, a major TNK-BP shareholder, and Viktor Vekselberg,...
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High hopes that Sochi region can live up to its legacy promises after Winter Olympics
With the 2014 Winter Olympics ending on Sunday, the focus will now be placed on the legacy of the sports event in Russia.
The sheer scale of the Sochi Olympics has outstripped anything done before, and the huge financial investment has...
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Moscow metro stations after blasts, day of mourning
1. Wide exterior of Lubyanka, headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB)
2. Man adding black ribbons to Russian national and Moscow city flags
3. Close up of flags
4. Wide of entrance to Lubyanka metro station
5. Close up of...
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UK Defence Secretary defends the country'sintelligence-sharing ties with the United States
1. Mid of UK Foreign Secretary William Hague approaching podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) William Hague, British Foreign Secretary:
"We should always remember that terrorists plan to harm us in secret, criminal networks plan to steal from...
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Report says key challenges oil dependence, lack of innovation
1. Wide of news conference
2. Mid of Angel Gurr�a, Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) signing documents, pan right to Ruben Aganbegyan, President of Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange...
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WRAP Waxwork figures of US President- elect unveiled
London, UK
1. Wide exterior of Madame Tussauds
2. Media at display for US President-elect Barack Obama wax figure
3. Wide of Obama wax figure standing in mock Oval office
4. Various of Obama figure
5. Tilt up from mock US presidential...
Bloomberg
Putin Departs G-20 Battered by Leaders Criticism
Nov. 17 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin departed early from the G-20 meeting in Australia, following a barrage of criticism from world leaders as he denied that Russian troops are operating in Ukraine. Bloomberg View columnist Leonid...