(28 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot Riga city
2. Wide shot church spires
3. Wide shot apartment blocks
4. Set up shot Irina Pryadko in her kitchen
5. Close up President Putin on coffee mug
6. Mid shot Irina pours coffee
7. Close up coffee cup
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Pryadko, pensioner:
"He (Yeltsin) alone decided that we could be thrown out of the Soviet Union. And nothing good came from it. We've been here for fifteen years, especially pensioners. When we lived in the USSR pensioners got many privileges, we worked and got a pension."
File - Riga - mid 1980's - no restrictions (EXACT DATE???)
9. Wide Shot May Day National Communist march
10. Wide shot people marching with red flags
11. Mid shot Latvian communist leaders wave from podium
12. Mid shot children marching with red banner
13. Irina Pryadko picks up photo from cabinet
14. Close up photo Putin with children
15. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Irina Pryadko, pensioner:
"Children should study in their native language, that's indisputable. We're not ashamed of the Russian language, we're even proud of it. I don't think there's a better language anywhere in the world. Half the world speaks Russian."
16. Wide shot old town Riga
17. Mid shot flags
18. Set up shot Yuri Zhuravlev at radio station
19. Mid shot Radio DJ
20. Set up shot Yuri talking to DJ
21. Poster of Putin on wall
22. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yuri Zhuravlev, businessman, owner of local radio station and local politician:
"Whenever I'm asked I always say that life was better under socialism than it is now. And when I answer this way in front of high-ranking officials or politicians they ask with wide-eyes "How can you say this? We've joined the European Union. We've joined NATO. How can you say that?"
23. Lamps outside Latvian Parliament
24. Exterior Parliament
25. Close up Parliament sign
26. Set up Visvaldis Latsis
27. Close up crest
28. SOUNDBITE: (Latvian) Visvaldis Latsis, MP
"It'll take a hundred years for them to outgrow their nostalgia for the Soviet Empire. Or they should adopt the same position as Germany under Adenhauer. Putin must follow the path of true democracy and reveal to the Russian people all the crimes of the Red Army and the KGB and ask for forgiveness, as did Germany. We don't have any problems now with Germany."
29. Wide shot street with war monument in background
30. Wide shot women selling flowers
31. Wide shot people sitting on benches
32. Mid shot people sitting on benches
33. Old man with stick walks on street
34. Set up shot Mikhail Gubin
35. Cutaway Russian newspaper
36. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mikhail Gubin, Journalist
"Many of them didn't take any citizenship. So they're not citizens. They thought that they were staying loyal to the USSR and its successor Russia but in actual fact it turns out that neither Russia nor Putin wants these citizens."
37. Irina Pryadko walks to window
38. Exterior bleak apartment buildings
39. Zoom out from branch to Irina looking out of the window
LEAD IN:
Russia's relations with Latvia continue to be clouded by the treatment of the country's sizable Russian minority.
Russia accuses Latvia of treating its ethnic Russians as second-class citizens.
Latvia insists that to gain citizenship they must pass a language test and answer questions on Latvian history.
And caught in the middle are several hundred thousand Russians who yearn for a return to the USSR.
STORYLINE:
For many ethnic Russians living in Latvia, the beautiful old town of Riga is another world.
The majority of the country's Russians live in Soviet-built suburbs where there is little beauty to be seen.
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