(31 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide police and journalists running towards the Triumph square
2. Mid police arresting National Bolshevik leader Eduard Limonov
3. Mid of police and security officers pulling Limonov away
4. Mid of same
5. SOUNDBITE (Russia) Nadezhda, no last name given, vox pop:
"This government is ruining the people. It has no right to exist. At all times it was like that: the elite that no longer represented the people must leave. But they don't, and feed such a huge army of police."
6. Various of police
7. Pan right Communist rally
8. Mid of Communist activists
9. Scuffles between Communists and National Bolsheviks, with one National Bolshevik activist being led away by police
10. Mid of line of police and security officers
11. Mid of Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Zyuganov, Communist Party Leader:
"There are no alternatives: either we invest the available means into operating facilities or else everything will stop tomorrow and we'll have ten million jobless."
13. Mid of pan left rally by supporters of Vladimir Zhirinovsky
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party:
"The Czar favoured the landlords, the Soviet government favoured the party functionaries, and today's authorities favour the financial wire pullers. When will they think about the people? It is the people who suffer most."
15. Mid of Zhirinovsky supporters
16. Wide of Russian government headquarters
17. Mid of group of "We" youth activists holding blank posters, their mouths sealed with tape
18. Pan of the "We" activists
19. Mid of police detaining all the "We" activists
20. Wide of pro-Kremlin United Russia party rally
21. Mid of flags some with face of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
22. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Isayev, State Duma Member:
"The government is headed by the leader of the largest party, the national leader, the most popular politician in Russia, Vladimir Putin. He is the man who always was with the people, who always heard the people, and who always found the most correct solutions at the most difficult moments."
23. Mid of cheering crowd
24. Zoom out from helicopter hovering over Moscow towards pro-government rally
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters rallied across Russia on Saturday to criticise the government's economic course and its response to the global financial crisis.
The protests, among the strongest yet, reflected public anger over worsening economic conditions and posed a
challenge to the Kremlin, which had faced little threat from the fragmented opposition and politically apathetic
population during the years of oil-driven boom.
Eduard Limonov, leader of the banned National Bolshevik Party, was detained by police at a Moscow square.
Limonov is one of the most radical critics of the Kremlin, and members of his group have taken a leading role in many previous street protests.
Meanwhile, smaller groups of communists led by Gennady Zyuganov and supporters of Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky held separate rallies in other parts of the Russian capital.
About 1,000 Communist demonstrators rallied on a central square surrounded by heavy police cordons.
Several hundred police blocked the square but did not try to break up the protest, which had been sanctioned by authorities.
Zyuganov said at Saturday's rally that the government must abandon Western economic models and conduct broad nationalisation.
Zyuganov called for more investments into the national economy, while Zhirinovsky called on the government to start thinking about the people's plight.

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