అథ్లెట్ అంబాసిడర్ గ్రూపులో మేరీకోమ్

భారత దిగ్గజ మహిళా బాక్సర్ మేరీ కోమ్ను ప్రఖ్యాత అథ్లెట్ అంబాసిడర్స్ గ్రూపులో చేర్చింది ఐఓసీ. ఈ గ్రూపు నుంచి మేరీ ఆసియా ప్రాంతానికి ప్రాతినిధ్యం వహించనుంది.

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Published : Oct 31, 2019, 6:27 PM IST

భారత మహిళా బాక్సర్ మేరీ కోమ్‌కు ఆరుదైన గౌరవం దక్కింది. 10 మందితో కూడిన ప్రఖ్యాత అథ్లెట్ అంబాసిడర్స్ గ్రూపులో మేరీకోమ్‌ను నియమిస్తూ ప్రపంచ ఒలంపిక్ కమిటీ (ఐఓసీ) నిర్ణయం తీసుకుంది. ఈ గ్రూపు నుంచి మేరీ కోమ్ ఆసియా ప్రాంతానికి ప్రాతినిధ్యం వహించనుంది.

ప్రతి ప్రాంతానికి ఒక మహిళ, ఒక పురుష బాక్సర్‌ రాయబారిగా ప్రాతినిధ్యం వహించి.. ఆ ప్రాంతంలోని బాక్సింగ్ సమాజంతో కలిసి పనిచేస్తారు. అలాగే టోక్యో ఒలంపిక్స్ 2020 కోసం బాక్సింగ్ టాస్క్ ఫోర్స్ (బీటీఎఫ్) నిర్వహించే.. అర్హత పోటీల రూపకల్పనలో ఈ గ్రూపు సహాయ పడనున్నట్లు ఐఓసీ తెలిపింది.

బాక్సింగ్ అంబాసిడర్‌గా ఐఓసీ గుర్తించడం పట్ల మేరీకోమ్‌ సంతోషం వ్యక్తం చేసింది. ఇది గొప్ప గౌరవంగా భావిస్తున్నట్లు పేర్కొంటు.. తోటి అథ్లెట్లకు సాయం చేసేందుకు కృషి చేస్తానని తెలిపింది.

ఇవీ చూడండి.. మంచే సమస్య.. లేదంటే గులాబీదే విజయం

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART NO ACCESS RUSSIA/NO ACCESS EUROVISION
SHOTLIST:
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ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany - 10 November 1989
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of bulldozer claw descending on wall and lifting section from top of wall
2. Crowds chanting and cheering
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Moscow, Russia - 24 October 2019
3. Interpreter of former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, Pavel Palazhchenko, looking at Gorbachev's photos
4. Photo of Gorbachev visiting East Germany in 1989, before the fall of the wall
5. Palazhchenko looking at photos
6. Photo of Gorbachev
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter of former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev:
"The important thing that happened on that day (on the 9th of November) was that they convened the meeting of the Politburo (the highest-ranking policy-making authority within the Communist party) and the decision (of the Politburo), which was unanimous, was that force would not be used to in any way try to change the course of events. It was clear what the directions of those events were."
8. Cutaway of the interview
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter of former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev:
"All of us should be, first of all, proud of the decision that he took and that was endorsed and supported by the entire Soviet leadership of that time. And I believe that any other decision could have had extremely serious, grave consequences, could have been the beginning of a disaster."
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ARCHIVE: West Berlin - 23 February 1971
10. Soviet soldiers marching near Brandenburg Gate
11. Soviet army officers saluting during parade
12. Parade in front of war memorial
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Moscow, Russia - 20 October 2019
13. Various of Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at London School of Economics, looking at books
14. Zubok's book reading (Russian): "A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev"
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at London School of Economics:
"Soviet troops by that time numbered over 300,000 officers and soldiers with more than 20,000 tanks. So practically they could have closed the entire border with their tanks, but they stayed in their barracks."
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ARCHIVE: East Berlin - 18 November 1989
16. Woman having passport checked at booth and walking across laughing
17. People in crowds waving and laughing
18. Press filming
19. Guard watching
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Moscow, Russia - 25 October 2019
20. Various of Nikolai Andreyev, former Soviet army colonel assigned to East Germany
21. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nikolai Andreyev, former Soviet army colonel assigned to East Germany:
"When the fall of Berlin wall was announced and all those events had started, I was happy that it all happened peacefully, without a military conflict, without any shooting and bloodshed. That was the most important thing."
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ARCHIVE: East Berlin - 7 October 1989
22. Various of Gorbachev and GDR (East Germany) leader Erich Honecker at round-table discussions
23. Various of Gorbachev, Honecker and delegations at another meeting
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Moscow, Russia - 24 October 2019
24. Various of Vyacheslav Mostovoi, chief of Soviet state television bureau in East Germany, at table
25. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vyacheslav Mostovoi, chief of Soviet state television bureau in East Germany:
"I was sure that our military units wouldn't take any radical action, Gorbachev's policy warranted that. We covered many of his meetings during his visits here (in Germany) with Shevardnadze (Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister). It was clear that he was loyal, non-radical and that everything would calm down slowly."
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ARCHIVE: Malta (exact location unknown) - 2 December 1989
26. Various of US President George H.W. Bush meeting Gorbachev
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Moscow, Russia - 20 October 2019
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at London School of Economics:
"How can we talk about lost possibilities, lost opportunities if he (Gorbachev) is the President of the collapsing country, with a collapsing currency, with a collapsing economy, who needed Western money, who cannot really negotiate as an equal partner with the West?"
28. Cutaway of books
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at London School of Economics:
"For Gorbachev it would have been, however, very embarrassing to insist on such a formal written agreement because the Warsaw pact was still in existence. It's sort of, you're asking to make a promise not to accept Poland, Hungary or Czechoslovakia into NATO when they are still members of your treaty."
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ARCHIVE: Brussels, Belgium - 11 March 1999
30. Exterior of NATO headquarters with gardener preparing flowers with flags behind
31. Close up man checking three new flag poles for Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic
32. Various of Czech Republic flag being ironed
33. Czech, Poland, Hungary name plates removed from shelf
34. NATO official placing new name plates
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ARCHIVE: Caslv, Czech Republic (150km East of Prague) - 17 March 1999
35. NATO flag being hoisted
36. Troops marching past three flags
37. Various of MiG-21s being flown
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ARCHIVE: Moscow, Russia - 1 May 2012
38. Dmitry Medvedev and and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin marching for a Mayday Communist rally
39. Putin speaking to a woman on the march
40. Wide of Medvedev and Putin speaking to people surrounded by journalists
41. Medvedev and Putin speaking to gathering
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Moscow, Russia - 22 October 2019
42. Various of Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament
43. SOUNDBITE (English) Konstantin Kosachev, Head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament:
"The Soviet Union and then Russia did make its own choice to stop a confrontation with the West and to start cooperation with the West. We changed our minds. That was our own choice and this is how I do not believe that the outcome of the Cold War may be considered in terms of somebody winning and somebody losing. It could have been a win-win situation, but for that the Western countries should have been much wiser."
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ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany  - 31 August 1994
44. Various of last remaining contingent of Russian forces marching together with units of the German army in front of then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin and then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
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Moscow, Russia - 25 October 2019
45. SOUNDBITE (Russian): Nikolai Andreyev, former Soviet army colonel assigned to East Germany:
"On the 31st of August 1994 Russian troops marched together with Bundeswehr (German troops) in Berlin's Treptower park. It was the beginning of the military partnership between Russian and Germany. Unfortunately it wasn't developed afterwards. You know the current situation and state of relations. Unfortunately, the course of development changed its direction."
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Moscow, Russia - 29 October 2019
46. Various exteriors of the Kremlin
STORYLINE:
When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then quickly accepting German unification.
Russian President Vladimir Putin now blames the Soviet leadership for naivete that paved the way for NATO's expansion eastward.
Many in Russia share that view, seeing the collapse of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany as a moment when Moscow reached out to the West hoping to forge a new era of partnership but was cheated by Western powers.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev encouraged the Communist leaders in Central and Eastern Europe to follow his lead in launching liberal reforms and took no action to shore up their regimes when they started to crumble under the pressure of pro-democracy forces.
During 1989, reformers took power across Soviet bloc countries, ending more than four decades of Communist rule.
The swiftness of the change took Gorbachev himself by surprise.
The morning after the Berlin Wall's collapse, Gorbachev called a session of the Communist Party's ruling Politburo to discuss a Soviet response.
"The decision (of the Politburo), which was unanimous, was that force would not be used to, in anyway, try to change the course of events," said Pavel Palazhchenko, a close aide of Gorbachev who worked as his official English interpreter at the time.
He added that "any other decision could have had extremely serious, grave consequences, could have been the beginning of a disaster".
The Soviet Union had over 300,000 troops and thousands of tanks and other armoured vehicles in East Germany.
"Practically they could have closed entire border with their tanks, but they stayed in their barracks," said Vladislav Zubok, an expert on Soviet history with London School of Economics.
Nikolai Andreyev, who was a Soviet army colonel assigned to East Germany, said he was relieved to see that the wall fell without a shot being fired and the Soviet leadership didn't try to reclaim control by violent means.
"I was happy that it all happened peacefully, without a military conflict, without any shooting and bloodshed. That was the most important thing," he said.
The Soviet Union itself was going through a tumultuous period of change. Liberal reformers in the newly elected Soviet parliament pushed for ending the Communist Party's monopoly on power and pro-independence movements quickly gained leverage in Soviet republics.
The Soviet media, transformed by Gorbachev's policy of openness, freely reported on the Berlin Wall's collapse.
"I was sure that our military units wouldn't take any radical action. Gorbachev's policy warranted that," said Vyacheslav Mostovoi, who covered the wall's fall for Soviet state television.
Following the wall's collapse, Gorbachev agreed to fast-track the talks on the unification of Germany and, to much Western surprise, easily accepted its membership in NATO.
But many in Russia continue to hold Gorbachev responsible for betraying Soviet ally East Germany and foregoing Moscow's vital interests in talks with Western powers.
They include Putin, who charged that the Soviet leader naively trusted Western promises that NATO wouldn't seek to incorporate Soviet bloc countries instead of getting a written pledge.
Vladislav Zubok argued that for Gorbachev it would have "embarrassing" to ask the West for written guarantees that the Warsaw Pact members wouldn't join NATO because it would have amounted to declaring the Soviet-led military alliance dead even before it formally ceased to exist in July 1991.
For Putin, however, Gorbachev's German policy was a show of unforgivable weakness that left a deep personal mark. A month after the wall's collapse, Putin, a KGB lieutenant colonel posted to Dresden, East Germany, was left to face demonstrators who tried to break into the KGB's headquarters there after the Soviet military ignored his desperate plea to protect the building. He eventually managed to turn the crowd back without violence.
As the Kremlin was negotiating German reunification, the Soviet Union quickly began to unravel amid a massive economic crisis and political turmoil. The Soviet hard currency reserves depleted and the Kremlin was struggling to pay its bills, leaving Gorbachev and his government in a weak negotiating position.
"How can we talk about lost possibilities, lost opportunities if he (Gorbachev) is the President of the collapsing country, with a collapsing currency, with a collapsing economy who needed Western money, who cannot really negotiate as an equal partner with the West," questioned Zubok.
The country's economic woes continued after the 1991 Soviet breakup, leaving Russia heavily dependent on Western financial aid throughout the 1990s. Some of the elite Soviet troops hastily pulled back from Germany often were lacking basic infrastructure and had to stay in tents. Germany helped finance the pullout, but many in Russia saw the aid as insufficient.
In the years that followed, the Kremlin could do little to oppose the enlargement of NATO that embraced Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in 1999 and incorporated other former Soviet bloc nations and the three ex-Soviet republics in the Baltics in the following years.
NATO's expansion eastward was widely seen in Russia as a proof of its hostile intentions, helping foment anti-Western sentiments.
Konstantin Kosachev, the Kremlin-connected head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, argued that the West, eager to claim victory in the Cold War, squandered a chance to build a safer world.
"The Soviet Union and then Russia did make its own choice to stop confrontation with the West and start cooperation," he said. "It could have been a win-win situation, but for that the Western countries should have been much wiser".
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