(5 Mar 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Delegation entering news conference
2. Mid shot of OSCE delegation sitting
3. Close up cutaway of name placed of Tonino Picula head of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tonino Picula, Head of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Delegation and Former Croatian Foreign Minister:
"We would like to underline, that according to our assessment, these elections were unfair, despite some innovations in election process and unhindered possibilities for campaigning. We hope that the Russian authorities engage more energetically in complying with the OSCE commitments and expect that they will take these remarks as an incentive to engage in a process of electoral reform thus allowing a genuine competition in future elections."
5. Mid shot of member of audience writing
6. Mid of media
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tonino Picula, Head of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Delegation and Former Croatian Foreign Minister:
"These elections were characterised by a number of problems from the very beginning. The point of an election is that their outcome should be uncertain, this was not the case in Russia. The biggest problem with the election is that there was no real competition."
13. Cutaway of OSCE delegation
14. Mid of news conference given by Russia's only independent election monitoring group, Golos
16. Set up of Victor Vakhshtayn, sociologist from Golos
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victor Vakhshtayn, sociologist from Golos:
Mr Putin is the winner but now it's a big question about legitimacy, because for example according of (sic) cyber polling committee data he won but not so clearly 60-something percent as he did according to official data. So what the opposition will do now, they will try to insist on those 10 percent differences, or 15 percent differences that was definitely doubtful, in terms of how it was obtained by the Central Election Committee."
18. Mid of flags
STORYLINE
The head of the major international election observer mission in Russia says there were serious problems in the vote that returned Vladimir Putin to the presidency.
"The point of an election," Tonino Picula told reporters on Monday, "is that their outcome should be uncertain, this was not the case in Russia."
Putin rolled to victory as expected Sunday to return to the Kremlin and keep his hold on power for six more years, but opponents claim the voting was rigged.
A rally has been set for Monday evening on Moscow's Pushkin Square, one of the central city's most iconic locations, with news reports say some 12,000 police and troops will be on duty to ensure order.
A brief synopsis by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe observer mission did not address complaints of widespread cases of people casting multiple ballots, but said the election �was assessed negatively� in almost a third of polling stations observers visited.
Picula said the "biggest problem" with the vote was that "there was no real competition."
Picula headed the short-term observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The Central Elections Commission says the prime minister, who was president in 2000-2008, got more than 63 percent of the nationwide vote.
The independent Russian elections watchdog Golos says incomplete reports from its observers of individual polling station counts indicate he hovered perilously close to the 50-percent mark needed for a first-round victory.
Some observers saw the move as a manoeuvre to try to soothe protesters.
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