(31 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of pro-Kremlin United Russia party rally
2. Mid of flags some with face of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
3. 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."
4. Mid of cheering crowd
5. Zoom out from helicopter hovering over Moscow towards pro-government rally
6. Pan right Communist rally
7. Mid of Communist activists
8. Scuffles between Communists and National Bolsheviks, with one National Bolshevik activist being led away by police
9. Mid of line of police and security officers
10. Mid of Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov
11. 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."
12. Mid of pan left rally by supporters of Vladimir Zhirinovsky
13. 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."
14. Various of Zhirinovsky supporters
15. Wide of Russian government headquarters
16. Mid of group of "We" youth activists holding blank posters, their mouths sealed with tape
17. Pan of the "We" activists
18. Mid of police detaining all the "We" activists
STORYLINE:
Several thousand supporters of the pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, held a rally in support of the government's anti-crisis measures.
Participants praised prime minister Vladimir Putin as the "national leader."
Andrei Isayev, a State Duma Member, said Putin was "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."
Demonstrators held flags and banners with the the party's polar bear logo and images of Putin.
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 protesters demonstrated against the government's economic course and its response to the global financial crisis.
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.
A small group of activists from the youth group "We" held a picket near the headquarters of the Russian government with blank posters and their lips sealed with tape.
Their action was peaceful but police was seen detaining some protesters.
Russia faces a huge shortfall in its national budget revenues this year and will have to drain tens of billions of dollars out of its rainy-day funds to
compensate, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Friday.
Russia has been battered by a steep plunge in world prices for the oil, the backbone of the country's economy.
Russia's economy soared in recent years as rising prices for oil and other natural resources spawned expansion of the consumer sector and created a nascent middle class.
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