(24 Aug 2022)
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Yekaterinburg - 24 August 2022
1. Continuous shot of Yevgeny Roizman getting out of his apartment block with law-enforcement agents and going to garage UPSOUND (Russian):
Journalist: "Yevgeny Vadimovich, hello, how can you comment on all this?"
Roizman: "In principle, the whole essence of it is because I called a war a war. That's it."
(part inaudible)
Journalist: "Yevgeny Vadimovich, We are with you."
Roizman: "I didn't doubt it"
Journalist: "Russia will be free"
Roizman: "This way, if you are going to search the garage, then it is this way." (to law-enforcement agents)
Journalist: "Yevgeny Vadimovich, what do you think of this trolling, that it marks the half-year anniversary of the special operation?"
Roizman: "I think it is ... (inaudible)." Roizman and agents enter garage
2. Wide of police mini-van near entrance to apartment block
3. Tracking shot of law-enforcement agents entering apartment block
4. Law-enforcement agents and Roizman's lawyer entering his apartment, media filming on smartphones
5. Wide of journalists waiting outside
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yulia Fedotova, lawyer:
"I believe that everything that is happening is illegal, since Yevgeny Vadimovich paid all the fines for discrediting the actions of the armed forces, and I think that he owes nothing to the Russian Federation, so I think that bringing him to criminal responsibility is not legal, does not comply with the constitution, neither with the international law, nor the requirements of the Russian law, since he did not say or do anything, for which he could be charged, tortured with searches from six in the morning, and with all the other unpleasant things."
7. Wide of law-enforcement agents leaving apartment block, carrying laptop box
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladislav Idamzhapov, Yevgeny Roizman's lawyer:
"(There were) searches in the Museum of the Nevyansk Icon, there were searches in the apartment of Yevgeny Vadimovich, there were searches in the garage, nothing (illegal) was found, no valuables, no money, no property was found, the investigators did not seize anything, except for a mobile phone, but in this was basically expected."
9. Wide of windows of Roizman's apartment
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladislav Idamzhapov, Yevgeny Roizman's lawyer:
"He is charged with committing a crime, not charged, so far he is suspected of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 208.3 (of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This is punishable by a maximum sentence of up to 3 years in prison."
11. Tilt up exterior of Nevyansk Icon Museum
12. Mid of protester near museum holding poster reading (Russian) "Freedom to Yevgeny Roizman. Leave ours to us."
13. Wide of journalists taking photos of protester
14. Mid of policemen near museum
STORYLINE:
The former mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city was arrested Wednesday as part of a criminal case on discrediting the country's military, amid a crackdown on critics of Moscow's action in Ukraine.
Police arrested Yevgeny Roizman, 59 who served as the mayor of Yekaterinburg in 2013-2018, following searches at his apartment and office.
Roizman's lawyer Vladislav Idamzhapov told reporters Roizman was held under a new law adopted after Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24.
He faces up to three years in prison if convicted.
Roizman, a sharp critic of the Kremlin, is one of the most visible and charismatic opposition figures in Russia.
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