RUSSIA: EXHIBITION OF ANTI VLADIMIR PUTIN POSTERS OPENS IN MOSCOW FIVE DAYS BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Record ID: 648185

  • Title: RUSSIA: EXHIBITION OF ANTI VLADIMIR PUTIN POSTERS OPENS IN MOSCOW FIVE DAYS BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
  • Date: 9th March 2004
  • Summary: (EU) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MARCH 9, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF EXHIBITION HALL WITH POSTERS ATTACKING PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN 0.06 2. CLOSE OF POSTERS READING "Relay contest, Russian style" (one with four-man sprint relay team) SHOWING PUTIN AS ATHLETE 0.13 3. CLOSE OF PUTIN WITH GOAT 0.19 4. SMV MAN LOOKING AT POSTERS 0.22 5. CLOSE OF POSTER OF ROAD SIGN READING Russia at cross-roads' (with multiple arrows showing the way, all bearing Putin's name) 0.28 6. WIDE OF ANTI PUTIN POSTERS 0.35 7. CLOSE OF POSTER WITH BELT READING 'Putin - our flogging' (one with the belt bent into a question mark), 0.40 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ANDREI BILZHO, POSTER CONTEST JUDGE, SAYING "A huge number of people took part in this contest, among them professionals, and it is a protest contest, because a large number of artists have stood up against state power, and as I have already said, artists should be in opposition to state power, especially caricaturists, otherwise they lose their identity. Everyone today forgets about this, but how else could it be?" 1.10 9. WIDE OF MORE ANTI PUTIN POSTERS WITH POSTER IN MIDDLE READING "James Orwell - twenty years after" 1.15 10. CLOSE OF POSTER READING "Vertical of power" (with Putin's finger) 1.22 11. WIDE OF POSTERS 1.26 12. CLOSE OF POSTER DEPICTING EGG WITH PUTIN'S FACE STAMPED ON IT 1.31 13. WIDE OF MORE OF POSTERS 1.35 14. CLOSE OF POSTER "Put your cross at voting" (with crossed over Putin's portrait) 1.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MOSCOW,RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVADE7AJLZASO23BRIC79BLV5O7Z
  • Story Text: Poster exhibit pours scorn on Russian political race
    dominated by President Vladimir Putin.



    With five days to go before presidential elections
    in Russia, a poster contest has been staged in Moscow
    satirising Russia's political system and the man at the
    top, President Vladimir Putin.

    The contest, which was staged on Tuesday (March 9),
    includes the works of several Russian satirical artists,
    all of whom appear to be united in their view that politics
    as dominated by Putin is bad news.

    One poster shows Putin as the only member of a four-man
    sprint relay team, with the main banner reading: "Relay
    contest, Russian style".

    Other works have a similar theme. One of the judges of
    the contest said the event represented a form of political
    protest.

    "A huge number of people took part in this contest,
    among them professionals, and it is a protest contest,
    because a large number of artists have stood up against
    state power, and as I have already said, artists should be
    in opposition to state power, especially caricaturists,
    otherwise they lose their identity. Everyone today forgets
    about this, but how else could it be?" said Andrei Bilzho,
    one of the judges of the poster contest.

    Putin is widely expected to win a second four-year term
    in office in the March 14 presidential poll.

    In the last opinion poll before the March 14 election,
    the Public Opinion Foundation said 65 percent of those
    questioned supported Putin, who is widely popular for
    bringing stability to the country after the chaotic 1990s.

    Other surveys have credited the Kremlin leader with 80
    percent.

    His nearest competitor, Nikolai Kharitonov of the
    once-dominant Communist Party, got six percent.

    Monday was the last day when Putin's five rivals could
    pull out of the polls, as three have threatened to do on
    grounds that it was pointless to compete against an
    opponent who controlled state television and local
    administrations.


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