GEORGIA/ RUSSIAN FEDERATION: CONFLICT/ POLITICS: Georgia fighting/ Soviet breakup

GEORGIA/ RUSSIAN FEDERATION: CONFLICT/ POLITICS: Georgia fighting/ Soviet breakup; INT 2 SHOT Williams chatting to Plekhanov CMS Sergei Plekhanov (US-Canada Inst) intvw SOF - Isolation is difficult/ Georgia is not yet part of the new Commonwealth and the political situation there has become so polarised BV Camerman as Russian leaders at table in b/g at pkf LAMS Russian leaders sitting for pkf MS SIDE press including camera crews MS Russian leaders at pkf CMS Gennady Burbulis (Russian Deputy PM) intvw (translated) SOF - There must be joint military strategic space with a united command and control line/ they will be multi national forces MS Men sitting listening including Churkin CMS Vitaly Churkin (Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman) intvw SOF - The nuclear button is going to be in the hands of the Russian President/ some republics will still have their own forces/ former USSR is still uncertain place/ friction still exists MS People queueing at counter for food PAN L-R more ditto MS SIDE woman in white coat sitting at cash register as dealing with customers CMS Ditto as counting bank notes and putting them into till CMS Vitaly Churkin (Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman) intvw SOF - Russia is going ahead/ effect of locomotive which has started moving and although there might be some resistance they will still have to go EXT/Snowing GV Street scene with people walking about CMS SIDE people walking past stalls on street covered with polythene to protect rfrom snow CMS Russian dolls with faces of Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev INT MS SIDE counter staff in white coast and red stripe aprons and hats serving queue opf customers at supermarket food counter CMS Sausagemeat rolls in wire shelf as customers queue seen in b/g CMS Vox Pops SOF EXT/NIGHT LGV Part of Kremlin PAN R-L more ditto and ZOOM IN CMS Williams i/c SOF + sign off (ends abruptly)