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(29 Feb 2012) SHOTLIST
Togliatti, Russia - 22 February 2012
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1. Wide of street, presidential election campaign banner showing portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, reading (Russian): "Honourable future for the great country"
2. Wide of traffic
3. Close up of the same
4. AvtoVAZ car-making factory employees working on production line
5. Mid of men fixing windscreen on car
6. Wide of car on production line
7. Wide of employees, men and women, working on production line
8. Mid of the same
9. Mid of workers having a break
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Olga Tyurina, AvtoVAZ car-making factory employee:
"Who are we are going to vote for? For (Vladimir) Putin. Because we trust him. He came here and helped us a lot, so the factory could continue working. He supported us a lot during the crisis. We will vote only for him."
11. Close up of new cars driving by on factory floor
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Togliatti, Russia - 23 February 2012
12. Mid of Oleg Bogolepov and his wife Natalya, both AvtoVAZ car-making factory employees, and son Rodion at home
13. Close up of Rodion
14. Close up of tea being poured
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Oleg Bogolepov, AvtoVAZ car-making factory employee:
"Six years ago I was making some additional money working as a taxi driver and that was more for pleasure because then I had enough money to live. When I did my favourite work - driving a car and talking to people - and in addition was getting some money, of course, that was some kind of a hobby for me. But, unfortunately, three years ago it (job as taxi driver) became an additional source of money."
16. Cutaway family photo
17. Mid of Oleg Bogolepov getting into his car
18. Close up of Oleg Bogolepov driving, shot from inside car
19. Mid of Igor Komarov, president of AvtoVAZ, talking to his colleague in his office
20. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Komarov, president of AvtoVAZ automaker:
"We constantly work on improving the quality. And we already make a product which is effective and more competitive than other manufacturers in Russia."
21. Wide top shot of Togliatti car-making factory
Moscow, Russia - February 28, 2012
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22. Wide of interior of investment finance company, Metropol, and people working
23. Close up of computer screen
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Kadish, IFC Metropol analyst:
"The current state of Russian economy is the same as it used to be one year ago... five years ago. Basically, the economy is very dependent on oil, on commodities and their price. Basically, we don't see any significant developments in the transformation of the economy towards higher value added (goods)."
FILE: Siberia - no date available
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25. Wide of oil fields in Siberia
26. Mid of oil rig working
FILE: Republic of Tatarstan - no date available
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27. Various of workers at oil rigs in Republic of Tatarstan
28. Wide of oil rig working in Republic of Tatarstan
STORYLINE
Togliatti is one of Russia's largest so-called 'monocities', cities which depend financially on just one enterprise, which here is the automotive giant AvtoVAZ, providing jobs for the majority of the local population.
These monocities all saw their peak in the Soviet era, but in 1991, after 70 years of Soviet rule, the huge, clanking structure collapsed.
Some factories simply closed their doors. Others were purchased for a pittance by a generation of oligarchs, who milked them for profits rather than investing in them.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is running to reclaim the presidency in Sunday's vote, saved the AvtoVAZ factory in Togliatti from bankruptcy more than two years ago.

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