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(20 May 1996) T/I: 11:04:29


Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russia's most famous eye surgeon and a challenger to President Boris Yeltsin in the June elections, has accused the Russian government of dirty tricks in the pre-election campaign. On Saturday (18/5) Fyodorov said that some $3 million in outstanding debts by the government had forced his world known eye surgery centre to virtually shut down. On Monday (20/5) Fyodorov's clinic was working with a skeleton staff, and although the diagnostical department was still open, for the first time since the creation of the ten year old centre, the surgical department was silent.

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA, MAY 20, 1996
ws exterior eye surgery centre
ws diagnostic room
ms doctor examining patient
cu patient's eye
ms other doctor examining patient
cu head of patient
ws door of surgery room opening
ws empty surgery room
Doctor Nikolai Sobolev sot in russian: "For the first time since we started to work here due to financial problems we had to stop our surgery work".
ws patients in waiting room
pan child being brought to surgery room
ms eye operation of a child
ms door of operation room closing
Sot of Doctor Leonid Linkin, deputy of Fyodorov at the centre: "There is already a lack of instruments, of medicines, we could of course continue but it would be worse and worse and we are against it".
ca glasses
Linkin sot in russian: "I think there is a link with the elections. Why should there be delays in the financing just at the moment when Fyodorov is challenging for presidency".
ws empty surgery room.

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