(18 Dec 2006)
AP Television News
18 December 2006
1. Wide of Red Square
2. People carrying floral wreath
3. Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov leading group of people walking
4. Men putting wreath by grave, walking away
5. Zyuganov laying flowers on grave
6. Close up Leonid Brezhnev bust at grave-site
7. Zyuganov touching ribbons on the wreath
8. People laying flowers on grave
9. Wide of crowds of people queueing along path in graveyard
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Zyuganov, Russian Communist Party leader
"I think that the country has to thank Brezhnev for strategic parity, together with the party of the people, they saved the country from big shake ups, and for making a good basis for a leap forward."
Soviet Archives
Date Unknown
11. Brezhnev and others greeting
12. Brezhnev signing document
13. Close up of the Moscow Times front page
14. Close up photograph of Brezhnev in newspaper
1982
15. Wide of Brezhnev's state funeral in Red Square
16. Soldier saluting on moving tank, leading parade of soldiers
17. Brezhnev laid out in state, people paying respects
18. Wide of crowds at the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square
STORYLINE:
People gathered in Moscow on Monday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
Members of the Communist Party, headed by party leader Gennady Zyuganov gathered to lay flowers and wreaths on Brezhnev's grave.
Zyuganov said he thought Russians had much to thank Brezhnev for.
After ousting former Russian leader, Nikita Khruschev in a 1964 coup, Brezhnev spent 18 years as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from 1964 to 1982.
He was succeeded as leader by Yuri Andropov, the former head of the secret police.
Brezhnev, who was born in 1906, died of a heart attack in November 1982.
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