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(10 Dec 2011) 1. Wide of Moscow's central Bolotnaya square filled with people taking part in protest against alleged election fraud 2. Mid of two women carrying white flowers 3. Mid of men holding makeshift posters reading: (Russian) "Truth for the people" and "Fair elections for the people" 4. Close-up of poster reading: (Russian) "Truth for the people" 5. Mid of man with white ribbon (the white ribbon has become a symbol of the anti-Putin protest) attached to his hat 6. Pan of crowd 7. Zoom in to former Russian Prime Minister, opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov, attaching white ribbon to coat 8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mikhail Kasyanov, Russian opposition leader: "All these years we have tried to explain it to the people and then those in power broke down and allowed not just the violation of human rights, but large-scale fraud, large-scale, that is becoming unacceptable to the people." 9. Mid of Kasyanov 10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mikhail Kasyanov, Russian opposition leader: "Of course people have run out of patience, especially in large cities where people are well-educated, well-informed, who understand they are not ready to tolerate such lawlessness when they are ignored and their votes are cynically stolen." 11. Tracking shot to man holding white flowers 12. Wide of crowd of protesters on Bolotnaya Square 13. Mid of protesters up a tree 14. Wide of protesters with flags and banners 15. Wide of protesters on footbridge, with banner reading: (Russian) "Crooks and thieves, return elections" 16. Wide pan of protesters 17. Set-up of opposition lawmaker Gennady Gudkov walking on stage 18. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Gennady Gudkov, opposition lawmaker: "Today it is necessary to unite efforts and make the authorities investigate all cases of fraud, all those who deserve it should be brought to account. The election results should be reviewed, today it is necessary to annul the rogue elections in Moscow, which were held outside the framework of law. Authorities want us to obey the law, while themselves they are acting outside the framework of the law." 19. Various of protesters 20. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of opposition Yabloko Party: "The campaign is only starting. We, Yabloko, are announcing a campaign for the constitutional and lawful dismissal of the Putin group from power." 21. Various of protesters STORYLINE: Tens of thousands of Muscovites thronged to a city square to protest against alleged electoral fraud and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party on Saturday. Demonstrators also gathered in rallies across the vast country, the largest public show of discontent in post-Soviet Russia. The public outpouring challenges his image, supported by state-controlled TV channels, as a man who won the affection of most Russians. That image was undercut by last Sunday's parliamentary elections, during which his United Party narrowly retained a majority of seats, but lost the unassailable two-thirds majority it held in the previous parliament. Even that reduced performance was unearned, inflated by massive vote fraud, the opposition says, citing reports by local and international monitors of widespread violations. The reports of vote-rigging and the party's loss of seats have acted as a catalyst for long-simmering discontent of many Russians. Some of the crowd gathered on Bolotnaya Square, on an island in the Moscow River adjacent to the Kremlin, carried white flowers. Others wore white ribbons as a symbol of protest against allegations of vote rigging. 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...