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(4 Oct 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of Russian parliament lobby
2. Wide top shot of Duma in session
3. Mid shot of information board with the date
4. Various interiors of Duma
5. Wide shot journalists getting deputies' accounts of the session
6. Set up shot Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in Duma
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Zhirinovsky leader of nationalist party LDPR:
"I said that we should part with Georgia. We should be grateful to Saakashvili for bringing the relations to such an extreme state. And we will profit from it, from a complete break up of all relations. We should not try to invent how not to get out of the legal frameworks. We should stop it once and forever. We will remove our army from there, all trade and economic relations should stop, as well as the visa regime, transport. Not a single aspect of these relations with Georgia is profitable for Russia. This is what we experienced for two hundred years. Let Georgians go to work in America, Turkey, Europe and let the NATO army be there. We should not be there."
8. Press cutaway
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Kokoshin, Chairman, Duma Committee for relations with the CIS countries (a loose alliance of former Soviet republics):
"The 'pressing across the board', as we call it, has just been outlined, and in addition, according to the statement that we have made and to what, in particular, the Foreign Minister Lavrov said yesterday, we have in store a range of other actions and options, which will surely affect the situation and may seriously affect, we hope, what is going on now in Georgia."
10. Wide of Russian parliament lobby
STORYLINE
Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, on Wednesday adopted a statement condemning the actions of the Tbilisi regime.
The statement, titled "On the Anti-Russian and Anti-Democratic Policy of Georgian Authorities", supported the harsh sanctions, primarily financial and economic ones, imposed on Georgia by Russia.
The lawmakers expressed concern about anti-Russian actions by Georgian authorities and violations of human rights and democratic norms in this country.
In 2006, the document said Georgian authorities made "sweeping and clearly anti-democratic" arrests of opposition activists.
An "unmotivated arrest" of Russian army officers last week led to a deterioration of relations between Russia and Georgia, the document said.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of nationalist party LDPR said: "We will remove our army from there, all trade and economic relations should stop, as well as the visa regime, transport. Not a single aspect of these relations with Georgia is profitable for Russia. This is what we experienced for two hundred years. Let Georgians go to work in America, Turkey, Europe and let the NATO army be there. We should not be there."
The document said Russia had every right to take a number of measures to protect legitimate national security interests, the life and health of its citizens.
The Duma supported "the use of sanctions" against Georgia, primarily financial and economic ones.
The real aim appears to be to punish Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili for his defiance of Russia through the detention of its officers on spying charges.
The dispute also reflects Kremlin alarm at Tbilisi's goal of NATO membership and the growing anger over U.S. influence in its former Soviet backyard.

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