(19 Jan 2007)
1. Tilt down from flags to protesters at Estonian Embassy
2. Man shouting, protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Russian) "Hitler - hero of Estonia."
3. Portrait of Adolf Hitler displayed by protesters
4. Russian police officers outside embassy fence
5. Protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Russian) "Hitler - hero of Estonia."
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kyril Shitov, head of staff of "The Young Guard of the United Russia" movement:
"One cannot rehabilitate Estonians, who fought on the side of Fascists and one can call Soviet soldiers liberators who escaped the world from Nazi invaders. We are standing against all of it and against all attempts to re-write history."
7. Pan over protesters shouting slogans
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Aleksandra, "The Young Guard of the United Russia" activist:
"We want our monuments not to be ruined in Estonia. If they want to release them please tell us about it. That's all I want to say."
9. Pan over protesters holding holding anti-Estonian banners
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Pavlov, "The Young Guard of the United Russia" activist:
"Neither we nor our ancestors can forget that Soviet soldiers freed the Estonian people and the whole Europe from the fascist evil spirits. We have to treasure our soldiers who died in the name of peace fighting against fascism."
11. Wide of protesters
12. Tilt up from protesters holding banners to flags
STORYLINE:
Members of a pro-Kremlin youth movement rallied near the Estonian Embassy in Moscow on Friday to protest against legislation allowing the removal of a monument marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany from the Estonian capital Tallinn.
More then a hundred members of the "Young Guard of the United Russia" youth movement chanted "No to Fascism!" and "Hitler is the Hero of Estonia" slogans while holding posters with portraits of the Fascist leader Adolf Hitler.
Head of staff of "The Young Guard of the United Russia" movement Kyril Shitov said they are on the side of those Estonians who fought against the Nazis.
"One cannot rehabilitate Estonians, who fought on the side of Fascists and one can call Soviet soldiers liberators who escaped the world from Nazi invaders. We are standing against all of it and against all attempts to re-write history," he said.
The movement was created by the "United Russia" majority party in the Russian Parliament.
Aleksandra also from "The Young Guard of the United Russia" movement said she wants to make sure the monument is preserved.
While Andrei Pavlov from the same group said he thought it was important to remember history.
Russia bitterly criticised Estonia earlier this week over the law approved by Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves permitting the relocation of statues and monuments from sites deemed unsuitable and allowing the removal from Tallinn of a 1947 statue of a Soviet soldier.
The bodies of several Soviet soldiers soldiers are buried underneath the monument.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Estonia's ambassador on Thursday to hear a strongly worded complaint about the law, which has further frayed already strained ties.
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