Natural Sound

Foreign dignitaries and ordinary Russians have paid their last respects to Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba
chev.
While Raisa Gorbachev was...

French actress Isabelle Huppert opens the 75th edition of the Avignon Festival with Anton Chekhov's "La Ceriseraie", directed by Tiago Rodrigues (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Russian director Kyrill Serebrennikov, who lives in exile in Berlin, is staging his play "The Black Monk", which is freely adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov, in the main courtyard of the Popes' Palace, for the last edition of...

1. Pan from book to people looking at books for sale

2. Various of people looking at books for
sale
3. Close of banner reading (English) "Irrawaddy Literary
Festival"
4. Push i
n to book...

Russian/Nat

A massive 1-point-five tonne gold cross has been restored on top of Smolensky Cathedral, located in one of Russia's oldest monaste
ries.
Money for the restoration work came from public...

1. Wide exterior Novodevichy monastery where former Russian president Boris Yeltsin is buried

2. Close-up of the gold domes of the mona
stery
3. Close-up of Yeltsin's grave with a wooden cross and a...

English/Nat

A British theatre company has taken a Russian play to Moscow and will play to packed houses even though it's being performed in Eng
lish.
The play is "Ivanov" one of Anton...

1. Wide of traffic

2. Wide exterior of the "Mossovet Theatre," fountain in foregr
ound
3. Mid of sculpture of Orpheus w
ith a harp
4. Wide of Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Group perf
orming on...

Russian/Nat

Muscovites are used to shortages but now there's even a queue for a final resting p
lace.
Most of the cemeteries of the Russian capital are...

5 April 2006

1. Mid shot of organisers looking at performers who are running on the wall performing ''Villa Villa'' (Argentinian en
try)
2. Mid shot of performers running on
the wall
3....

1. Zoom out on wide of Novodevichy Cemetery, where former Russian President Boris Yeltsin will be buried

2. Wide of cemetery
gates
3. Close-u
p of sign
4. Wide of preparatio
ns in cemetery
5....

In 1892, the famous 19th / 20th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov bought the small country estate of Melikhovo, about forty miles south of Moscow, where he lived until 1899 with his family. Scenes of an exhibition...

TONY-WINNING ACTOR BRIAN DENNEHY DIES AT 81

Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, has died. He was 81.