Скачать или смотреть Voters in Trans-Dniester approve region's bid to eventually join Russia

(19 Sep 2006)
15 September 2006
1. Wide of Tiraspol street
2. National symbols
3. Emblem of USSR
4. Lenin monument in front of the building
5. Poster for the independence referendum, people walking past
6. Poster calling on people to vote
7. People reading posters
8. Soviet tank monument
9. Soviet emblem on the tank and words reading: For the Motherland!
10. Set up Irina Abramova in school museum
11. Black and white photograph of happy school-leavers
12. Group photograph of schoolchildren
13. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Irina Abramova, teacher at Tiraspol High School:
"When they set off to their graduation party, the children did not know the war would break out that night. Certainly they didn't have such a horrible fate as the children of Bendery who returned home with a hail of bullets whistling past them. Nevertheless, it was like that. And by morning we were at war."
21 June 1992 (pictures dated on screen)
14. Armoured vehicle driving past
15. Deserted street and sounds of shooting
16. dead body covered with blanket
15 September 2006
17. Pan from fish tank to children by their desks
18. Schoolboy reading a book
19. Textbook
20. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vanya Perbanov, student at Tiraspol High School:
"I want to go to university. A Moscow university. By all means everything connected with Russia. Everyone over here wants to enter universities in Russia, Ukraine or CIS countries. Many say they want to study at universities here in Trans-Dniester, there are some good ones, but Russia is a more desirable destination."
16 September 2006
21. People walking with flags
22. People carrying pro-Russian posters
23. People at stadium
24. People waving flags
25. Pulldown yellow flag with Che Guevara to a girl waving the flag
26. Trans-Dniester president Igor Smirnov walks out onto field
27. Flags
28. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Igor Smirnov, Trans-Dniester president:
"We should develop with a country which have always helped us in difficult times both in economy and politics, even during the collapse of the Soviet Union. I'm talking about the mission which were and are carried out here by Russian soldiers. Therefore if we want to live in peace and if we don't want to be enslaved by anyone, we should choose Russia."
29. Elena Belokurskaya and husband waving a flag
30. Ribbon with Russia-Soviet Moldovan colours attached to clothes
31. Elena Belokurskaya chatting with husband
32. Set up Elena Belokurskaya
33. Cutaway boat on river
34. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Elena Belokurskaya, Resident:
"Why do we need anything foreign, we have enough of our own. We will live with those around us like Ukraine and Russia. There will come a time, I'm sure, when Moldova will be with us again like it was before."
17 September 2006
35. Elena goes to vote
36. Voting station
37. Men drop votes into ballot box
38. Pull down Elena drops vote into box
LEAD-IN:
Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region will press ahead with its hope of joining Russia after voters overwhelmingly backed the region's split from Moldova in a referendum that was ignored by the West and greeted cautiously on Monday by the Kremlin.
The Trans-Dniester Central Election Commission, said that 97.1 percent of voters cast ballots in favour of continuing the region's 16-year-old de-facto independence with the ultimate goal of union with Moscow.
Only 2.3 percent voted against. The remaining percentage of ballots were invalid.
Critics warned that the referendum, which was not recognised by Moldova, the European Union or the United States, could inspire pro-Russian
separatists in other ex-Soviet republics.
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