Nationalist demo held in Moscow

Описание: (4 Nov 2011)
1. Wide of Russian nationalist march in Moscow
2. Mid of religious effigy and flags
3. Close-up of man in white balaclava, crowd chanting "one for all and all for one"
4. Russian Nationalist leader Alexander Belov walking in front of march
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Belov, Russian Nationalist leader and Co-leader of Russkiye ("Russians") movement:
"Today Russians have gathered here to say it is now enough to let Russia be milked by Russian leaders. We have to act as the people of Egypt and Libya did and throw them far away from here."
6. Various of marchers holding large imperial russian flag
7. Wide of police helicopter monitoring march
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Demushkin, Co-leader of Russkiye ("Russians") movement:
"We have to get rid of all the corruption and then there will not be all these millions of unnecessary men (meaning foreign migrants). Seven million local people (meaning Russians) are unemployed. Get rid of the vegetable warehouses (where many foreign migrants work), change the working conditions on the markets and they'll all leave peacefully."
9. Wide of marchers with flags
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Georgii Borovikov, Co-leader of Russkiye ("Russians") movement:
"They use a cheap working class and as a result we get drug trafficking, crimes and ethnic criminality is growing. What should we do with them? We should deport all those who are illegally here."
11. Wide pan of march
12. Mid of crowd holding flags and stage
13. Mid of crowd
14. Mid of anti-corruption whistle-blower Alexander Navalny on stage
15. Close-up of anti-corruption whistle-blower Alexander Navalny speaking on stage UPSOUND (Russian):
"Let us do what is needed in order for these beasts, (self exiled oligarch Boris) Berezovsky who was the founder of United Russia, Abramovich who is one of United Russia's leaders with the crook (prime Minister Vladimir) Putin, to be afraid of Russians."
16. Mid of crowd applauding
17. Wide of crowd and stage
STORYLINE:
Thousands of far-right nationalists and neo-Nazis marched through Moscow on Friday to call for ethnic Russians to "take back" Russia.
Resentment has grown in the capital over dark-complexioned Muslim migrants from Russia's Caucasus and the money the Kremlin sends to those restive regions.
Chanting "Russia for Russians" and "Migrants today, occupiers tomorrow," about five thousand people - mostly young men - marched through a working-class neighbourhood on the outskirts of the capital.
"Today Russians have gathered here to say it is now enough to let Russia be milked by Russian leaders." Said nationalist figurehead, Alexander Belov.
Police stood shoulder-to-shoulder along the street, which was blocked to traffic.
Violently xenophobic groups have flourished in Russia over the past two decades. They kill and beat non-Slavs and anti-racism activists, and crudely denounce the influx of immigrants from the Caucasus and from Central Asian countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.
They have drawn moral support from nationalism that has been encouraged by Vladimir Putin's rule as part of the Kremlin's attempts to rebuild a strong Russian state.
After a clash last December between police and thousands of football fans and other extremists just outside the Kremlin walls, and an unprecedented outbreak of hate crimes, the government has taken a tougher line against the groups, but their virulent hatred is proving hard to combat.
The money is intended to bring stability after years of war, but the region remains deeply impoverished while Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov flaunts his wealth.

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