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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: GORBACHEV ATTENDS NEW SDP CONGRESS
Russian/Eng/Nat
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday attended the Founding Congress of his new Social Democratic Party of Russia.
By coincidence, exactly fifteen years ago Mikhail Gorbachev was elected to the post of...
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4:3 File as Yelena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov's widow, dies at 88
Oslo, 10 December 1975
1. Wide of prize giving ceremony
2. Various of Yelena Bonner, wife of the prize winner Andrei Sakharov who was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union to collect his prize, at ceremony to receive husband's Nobel...
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RUSSIA: GENERALS WANT YELTSIN TO RESUME NUCLEAR TESTING
XFA Novaya Zemlya & Moscow, Russia - 15 October 1999 & file
APTN FILE - Novaya Zemlya
1. Wide of snowy landscape
2. Close up of three soldiers walking
3. Two helicopters
4. Cut away to Red Star on army barracks fence
5....
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Russian doctors say over half the population dies young because of alcohol
Moscow, Russia, June 21, 2009
1. Wide shot of people walking in front of the arch revealing Red Square
2. Wide shot of tourists in Red Square
3. Mid shot of little girl playing
4. Mid shot of women drinking alcohol
Moscow, Russia,...
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Senior statesmen mark anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall; speeches, file
FILE: Berlin, Germany - November 9, 1989
1. Wide of piece of wall being lifted by mechanical digger
2. Chunk of wall coming down
3. Man sawing wall
FILE: Berlin, Germany - November 9, 1989
4. Pull out to wide of Checkpoint Charlie...
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Ceremony on tenth anniversary of failed Communist coup.
1. Marchers approaching along road
2. Men carrying wreath
3. Soldiers carrying wreaths
4. Soldiers laying wreaths
5. Russian flag
6. Soldiers saluting monument and marching away
7. People laying flowers to the monument
8. Old soldier...
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GPS technology brings the recent past to life
AP Television News
Berlin - 24 April 2008 (mute)
1. Tilt down from Brandenburg Gate to cultural manager Eva-Andrea Schmidt holding GPS device
2. Various of Schmidt with GPS
3. Various of GPS screen showing maps and historical...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Russia remembers 1991 coup, final phase in USSR demise
CLEAN: Russia remembers 1991 coup, final phase in USSR demise
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Former Soviet leader launches new book on international relations
Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday presented his new book "In The World, That Is Changing" in Moscow.
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A look back at previous US Russia summits in Helsinki
Finland has a long tradition of hosting U.S.-Russian summits, particularly during the Cold War, when the country was a neutral buffer state and its capital, Helsinki, served as a gateway between the Communist East and the West.
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Analyst: Trump/Putin Meeting Starts With NATO
With U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin firming up plans to meet in Helsinki next month many are questioning what the two leaders will discuss and what, if anything, will come from the meeting.
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NATO chief appeals to Russia ahead of INF deadline
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there will be a "measured and responsible" response from NATO following a decision by the US and Russia to rip up a 32-year-old arms control treaty.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : China hails Gorbachev's 'positive contributions' to Sino-Soviet ties
China on Wednesday praised Mikhail Gorbachev for his part in improving ties between Beijing and Moscow in the 1980s and 1990s, following the death of the Soviet Union's last leader (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Communists commemorate the 15th anniversary of toppling of Gorbachev
Moscow, 19 August 2006
1. Wide shot communist rally
2. Bystanders
3. Red flags, zoom out to participants
4. Elderly communist supporters, one holding flag
5. Man addressing crowd
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lev Vasilyevich:
"It was an...
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Frm Nobel peace prize winners' human rights meeting
1. Wide tilt down of Nobel laureates and other attendees on the podium
2. Pan of Nobel laureates on the podium (right to left) - Mohamed El Baradei, former chief of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency); Jody Williams, America...
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GERMANY: FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL ANNIVERSARY (4)
Eng/Ger/Nat
Germans celebrated a decade of openness between East and West with the biggest party since the Wall came unexpectedly tumbling down in 1989, transforming the former no-man's land that was once the Cold War fault line into a...
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Medvedev comments on elections and Europe economy
1. Mid of President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus and wife meeting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
2. Close of honour guard
3. Mid of honour guard walking by and Medvedev and Klaus in background
4. Honour guard walking by and...
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Gorbachev calls for removal of Lenin from mausoleum, Obama reax
AP Television
Moscow - 4 June, 2008
1. Wide of former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev at news conference
2. Mid of Gorbachev
3. Cutaway of media
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president:
"We will definitely...
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RUSSIA: BRONZE DUCK SCULPTURES RETURNED (V)
Voice and effects
voiced by Katherine Bonner
The ducks are back in Moscow.
Three of them disappeared from a park last February -- but officials are certain they did not fly south for the winter.
The ducks are bronze statues that were...
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Tributes left at the home of celebrated dissident author, reax
1. Pan left of fence outside Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn's house
2. Mid shot of gates
3. Flower tribute attached to gates
4. Flowers near gates
5. Wide of Lubyanka square, former KGB headquarters
6. Street scene
7....
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GEORGIA: TBILSI: POPE JOHN PAUL II WELCOMED
Russian/Nat
The leaders of the former Soviet republic of Georgia gave Pope John Paul II a warm welcome as he arrived in the capital, Tbilisi, on Monday.
Ahead of the visit, President Eduard Shevardnadze had told parliament that the Pope...
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GERMANY: FALL OF BERLIN WALL CELEBRATIONS
Berlin, Germany - 8 November 1999
1. George and Barbara Bush on Berlin City Hall steps awaiting Mikhail Gorbachev
2. Gorbachev arrives and waves to crowd
3. Cutaway of crowd with woman holding up sign saying 'Thank you Gorby' in...
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Former chancellor presents 2nd volume of memoirs
1. Helmut Kohl entering press conference room for book launch
2. Close-up shot of Helmut Kohl
3. Medium shot of Helmut Kohl presenting new book
4. Wide shot of press conference room with media
5. Cutaway of media cameras
6. Wide shot of...