Chechnya - First post-war elections

(27 Jan 1997) T/I 11:22:34
The first post-war elections for a president and parliament began in Chechnya on Monday (27/1). Chechens voted amid tight security aimed at thwarting any attempts by extremists to disrupt the polling.
Hundreds of election observers under the auspices of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were constantly accompanied by armed guards as they moved around the country.
SHOWS:

GROZNY, CHECHNYA AND ENVIRONS 27/1

GROZNY AND ENVIRONS:
0.00 WS horse-drawn cart down snow-covered road
0.05 WS security check on car in Grozny
0.08 CU security man
0.11 MS security men checking boot (trunk) of car
0.15 MS polling station interior, registration table
0.18 CU election officials having difficulty setting up cardboard ballot box
0.25 CU three OSCE election observers looking at list on clipboard
0.32 WS PAN long queue of voters outside a polling station
0.41 MS interior polling station, voters entering and having hands checked for indelible ink marks
0.46 MS Chechen man in fur hat voting
0.51 WS pedestrians and traffic at intersection

PERVOMAISK, NEAR GROZNY:
0.55 CU Aslan Maskhadov, former rebel chief of staff, voting

VEDENO:
1.03 MS Shamil Basayev, rebel field commander, going into voting booth
1.07 CU Basayev putting ballots in box

STARIYE ATAGI, NEAR GROZNY:
1.16 WS acting leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev embraced outside polling station
1.20 CU Yandarbiyev inside, voting

GELDEGEN, EAST OF GROZNY:
1.24 CU polling station sign
1.26 WS mob of voters inside, shouting "God is Great" and wanting to ballot so they can go home to break Ramadan fasting
1.30 CU over shoulder of registrars marking hands and checking IDs.
1.36 WS car away down snowpacked road
1.39 CU/MS laughing kids clinging to rear bumper of Lada as it pulls them down snowpacked road

1.47 Vision ends

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