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Police detain 200 people who tried to hold nationalist march on Unity Day

(4 Nov 2008) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of protesters gathering by Moscow river embankment 2. Various of protesters preparing flags 3. Police officers walking 4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexei Mikhailov, Russian march participant: "We are against the overwhelming immigration which we don't need. We are against destructive cultural tendencies prevailing now. We are against the discrimination of Russian people, because you know that recently the word 'Russian' was equal to 'extremist' and the word 'nationalism' became a bad word. But now the times are changing and the Russian march means legalisation of Russian nationalism." 5. Flags held by protesters 6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergei Baburin, lawmaker, leader of "Narodny Sobor" movement, the organisers of the march: "Any US president will try to play the 'Russian card' to solve his internal economic problems first of all. That means he will try strengthen the US economy at Russia's expense and our goal is not to let this happen." 7. Wide of protesters marching 8. Marchers, some in costume, followed by men beating drums 9. Protesters beating drums 10. Protesters chanting 11. Protesters chanting (Russian) "Glory to Russia" and "Russians go forward." 12. Riot policemen walking onto street 13. Riot police detaining protesters, placing them onto police bus 14. Riot police on street, zoom in and pan to police truck driving past STORYLINE Moscow police said on Tuesday that they had detained more than 200 people who tried to hold a nationalist march in the city. A so-called 'Russian March' has been held for the past three years to celebrate National Unity Day, but this year it was banned in Moscow and other cities. Marchers were only allowed to gather in one place in Moscow city centre, where a few hundred participants from various ultra-nationalist organisations formed up. Other nationalist groups, including the Movement Against Illegal Migration, which tried to gather and "March to the Kremlin" - as it was announced on their website - were detained by riot police. The new holiday was created in 2005 to replace the traditional 7 November celebration of the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power. The Kremlin has tried to give it historical significance by tying it to the 1612 expulsion of Polish and Cossack troops who briefly took Moscow at a time of political disarray, but it has now been seized upon by extreme nationalists. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...