(18 Jul 2013) SHOTLIST
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1. Mid of Alexei Navalny's train arriving at Kirov station, pan
2. Mid of Navalny and his wife, Yulia, getting off the train
3. Wide of digital clock showing 07:20, local time of Navalny's arrival in Kirov
4. Mid of Navalny and his wife walking on platform
5. Wide of courthouse
6. Mid of policeman with dogs
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8. Mid of policeman with dog crossing street
9. Mid of journalists at courthouse door
10. Close of sign on courthouse
11. Mid of Navalny entering courtroom, pan of him walking towards his seat, shaking hands with people
12. Mid of Navalny sitting down
13. Close reverse view of Navalny sitting with his legal team, zoom out
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16. Wide pan from judge to Navalny standing
17. Close reverse view of Navalny and his legal team listening to judge
STORYLINE
A Russian judge on Thursday found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of embezzlement, a finding that leaves the charismatic anti-corruption blogger and Moscow mayoral candidate facing up to six years in prison.
Judge Sergei Blinov did not immediately state the sentence during the proceedings in Kirov.
Under Russian court proceedings, full verdict readings can take several hours.
Navalny was charged with heading a group that embezzled 16 million roubles (500,000 US Dollars) worth of timber from state-owned company Kirovles while he worked as an unpaid adviser to the provincial governor in Kirov in 2009.
In the four years since Navalny began blogging about Russia's endemic corruption, the 37-year-old lawyer has become the major figure of Russia's nascent opposition.
Navalny's investigations have targeted a wide circle of loyalists to President Vladimir Putin from members of parliament to state bankers, striking at the core of Putin's "vertical of power" and threatening to discredit the entire system of governance he has built.
He spearheaded the wave of massive protest rallies that arose in late 2011, riveting crowds of 100-thousand or more.
He also pushed his ambitions by declaring himself a candidate for this autumn's Moscow mayoral election.
The conviction does not immediately nullify his candidacy.
That would not happen until his defence team exhausted its appeals, which could take several months.
It is unclear whether the conviction would intimidate his supporters or undermine the activists who have coalesced around him.
Navalny had long said he expected to be convicted, and in a final blog post before leaving Moscow for Kirov, he downplayed his personal importance to the wider opposition.
Navalny's supporters are already planning a rally for Thursday evening just outside the Kremlin walls in protest, despite the fact that authorities refused to give the green light for a demonstration.
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