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GERMANY: DEATH OF RAISA GORBACHEV UPDATE
Russian/Nat
Amid outpourings of sympathy, the body of Raisa Gorbachev, wife of ex-Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, was being returned to Russia on Tuesday in preparation for burial later in the week.
Mrs. Gorbachev, 67, died of...
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Soviet kitsch being bought up in Russia
May 1, 2006, Moscow - May Day celebrations
1. Wide shot stand, person singing
2. Close up, person singing
3. Wide shot, hundreds listening with red flags zoom to flag
4. Close up, portrait Lenin
5. Close up, woman with Stalin poster
6....
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RUSSIA: STALINISTS CRITICIZE YELTSIN HANDLING OF CHECHNYA
Eng/Russian/Natsot
President Yeltsin's handling of the crisis in Chechnya has again been criticised today.
Hardline Stalinists celebrating the birth of the dead dictator have accused the Russian President of weakness.
Joseph Stalin...
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SYND 15/6/72 INTERVIEW WITH SOVIET EXILES LIVING IN ITALY
Interview with three exiled Soviet intellectuals
1 ms three exiled Soviet intellectuals towards zoom into Alexander Izanin Volpin
2 cu Yuri Titof pan Yuri Glasgov pull back to all three
2 gv traffic in Rome
3 ms Titof with paintings
4...
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VIETNAM: COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS MEETING UPDATE
Eng/Spanish/Nat
Vietnam's first Communist Party Congress for five years has come to an end in Hanoi.
The 4 day meeting - which set economic targets and named a new slightly younger politburo - was attended by delegates from around the...
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SIBERIA: PRESIDENT YELTSIN PROMISES TO PAY MINERS UNPAID WAGES
Russian/Nat
Desperate to stay in power for another term, President Yeltsin turned his election campaign into a spending spree, promising (m) millions of dollars of unpaid salaries to Russia's disgruntled industrial workers.
Russia's...
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SYND 15 4 77 REPORT ON CHINESE UNIVERSITIES
The fifth volume of the thoughts of Chairman Mao is to be published soon, with a print order of two hundred million copies. A dominant theme of the book is the late Chinese leader's mistrust of the Soviet Union, and exhortations to the...
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Former Soviet leader Gorbachev calls for Ukraine unity
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told the Associated Press on Monday that it was important that Ukraine is held together, emphasising the battle for influence between Russia and the West in the crisis roiling the country.
Gorbachev...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: EXHIBITION OF CLOSED CITIES
Russian/Nat
Years after the fall of communism, the former Soviet Union is continuing to yield its once most closely guarded secrets.
Cities whose very existence was for years concealed are for the first time openly displaying the...
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RUSSIA : BORDER GUARDS TRAINING
Russian/Nat
Life for Russia's border guards has changed beyond all recognition since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
From the cushy life of the Cold War, they now have to prevent Chechen separatists from attacking their towns and rebels...
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Rice testifies about Dept of State budget before Senate Foreign Relations
1. Mid of Rice taking seat
2. Close-up of Senator Joseph Biden opening hearing
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator Richard Lugar, Republican, Indiana:++PARTLY OVERLAID
"Madam Secretary, yesterday Russian President Vladimir Putin, while...
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Reax to death of Boris Yeltsin, analyst and voxpops
FILE - Moscow, 19 August, 1991
1. Former Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, walking with officials
2. Yeltsin getting up onto tank
3. Yeltsin addressing people
FILE - Moscow, 21 August, 1991
4. Wide of people chanting Yeltsin's name...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BI-ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS
Russian/Nat
Movie stars from around the world are gathering in Moscow for the Russian capital's bi- annual film festival due to open on Saturday night.
But the glitter of the gala party is in stark contrast to Russia's crumbling film...
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SYND 7 8 74 ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, YIGAL ALLON HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE
Israeli Foreign Minister,Yigal Allon, holds press conference upon his return from the USA
1) interior, PRESS CONFERENCE: Israeli Foreign Minister,Yigal Allon, (English), talks about discussions held in the USA, regards Soviet and Syrian...
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USA: DENVER: SUMMIT OF 8: PRESIDENT YELTSIN ENCOURAGES INVESTMENT
Russian/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin courted U-S business executives on Saturday, in Denver, to persuade them to invest in Russia.
However, Yeltsin has been excluded from economic discussions at the summit of leaders from the...
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RUSSIA: SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD ARRIVES IN MOSCOW
Natural Sound
Syrian President Hafez Assad arrived in Moscow on Monday for talks on upgrading his military with Russian hardware.
Russia's Interfax news agency reported Assad will discuss the possible purchase of fighter jets, tanks,...
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Russia - Agreement Signed With India
Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and President Boris
Yeltsin signed agreements on Thursday (30/6) to boost flagging
ties but failed to strike a deal on New Delhi's estimated $10
billion debt to the ex-Soviet Union. "Now the task...
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SYND 12-4/74 GROMYKO ADRESSES UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK
United Nations General Assembly in special debate on economic problems, with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko speaking on international energy crisis.
1. mcu Gromyko at the rostrum SOUNDBITE (English voiceover) not in favour of an...
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First post-Soviet president's body returned to Georgia for burial
1. Wide shot of the house of Georgia's late president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, with people outside
2. Patriarch Ilia II, Patriarch of Georgia, entering the house
3. Interior, coffin with flowers, priests, mourners
4. Teenage mourners,...
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GS 27 10 82 AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN
Afghan refugees in Pakistan make weapons in refugee camps, man speaking about Soviet Muslims defecting to Afghan Mujahedeen army to fight against Russians.
1. various of wounded people, some children, in hospital beds, voice heard off...
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SYND 24/06/74 KISSINGER HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger holds a press conference on the possibility of USA and USSR reaching agreement on underground nuclear tests ban during President Nixon's visit to Moscow.
1. gv Kissinger at press conference
2. cu...
British Movietone
IRAN - ANGLO-SOVIET CONTROL -
The new Shah is sworn-in, Mohammed Riza Pahlavi is well disposed towards Britain. Meanwhile, a hundred miles north west of Tehran the British and the Russian troops meet near Kazvin. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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GS 23 12 81 PHALANGIST LEADER GAMAYEL ON GOLAN ANNEXATION
Amine Gemayel, son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Pierre Gemayel, makes a press statement about the Golan Heights aneexation by Israel.
1. ms Gemayel on street, speaks to camera SOUNDBITE:(in English) Consequences will be very...
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RR7508B USSR A MOSCOW REPORT
Early in 1975, Russia signed a huge trade agreement
with Britain. It was one of a growing number of links
the Soviet Union has forged with the capitalist west-links
which have inevitably led to influences on
everyday life in Russia. ...