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And you, young people, are the future of Russia!\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Boris Yeltsin, Russian President\u003cbr/\u003eTraditionally the hardest group to mobilise, Russia's youth seems to have been fired up  by their 65-year-old president's exuberant campaign.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Yeltsin campaign is sort of \"happening\" now. It's sort of this exciting to be about -  and that's never happened before. I think of course all these people are not going to go  out and vote for Boris Yeltsin and many of those people are not at voting age, but these  are the new voters for Boris Yeltsin and I think it's going to be a surprising turn-out with  them.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Michael McFaul, Analyst, Carnegie Endowment,\u003cbr/\u003eMoscow\u003cbr/\u003eRussia's young practically take for granted freedom and a lifestyle their parents dared  not dream of. \u003cbr/\u003eIn Soviet times, couples risking a little dancing also risked a night in the cells for  breaching the peace. \u003cbr/\u003eNow, strip clubs, fashion shows and all-night  bars are two a penny in the big cities.\u003cbr/\u003eRelentless propaganda from Yeltsin's election team - driving home\u003cbr/\u003ethe slogan \"Vote - or you lose\" - has paid off. \u003cbr/\u003eFirst time voters have realised what is at stake.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Russian)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're voting for him because at least things won't get worse. And we are afraid of  change, afraid of civil war.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Russian)\u003cbr/\u003e\"No way! I had enough of all that communist history at school. I've had it up to here with  them. No thanks, anyone but Zyuganov or Zhirinovsky\u003cbr/\u003eFor Yeltsin's main rival, Gennady Zyuganov, breaking the mould of his traditional  electorate has been an uphill struggle. \u003cbr/\u003eDisenchanted pensioners are easy prey to his socialist message. \u003cbr/\u003eBut convincing the young that they have something to gain from a communist vote is a  different matter.\u003cbr/\u003eHis supporters clamoured for autographs at a meeting in a Moscow cinema this week. \u003cbr/\u003eBut quite how many they number is an open question.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What I want to say is it's too simple to say that only old people in Russia support the  communists. The prevailing western view is that it's only old people. But here in this  movie house today we see a great many young people and of course we know that  there are young soldiers, young workers and young peasants and students who do  support Zyuganov. But we have to say that the country of course is split.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Professor Stephen Cohen, Princeton University\u003cbr/\u003eSunday's vote will reveal how much the war in Chechnya has cost Yeltsin the faith of  the young generation. \u003cbr/\u003ePromises that military service will be abolished may be hard to believe for those who  have lost brothers and friends.\u003cbr/\u003eYoung men liable for call up and youngsters living in Russia's impoverished farming  communities are an unknown quantity for Yeltsin and Zyuganov. \u003cbr/\u003eBut right until the end, Yeltsin stuck to what he does best:\u003cbr/\u003eImpromptu speeches and the personal touch that brought down the Soviet Union and  brought him his first term of office in Moscow's Kremlin.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Russian)\u003cbr/\u003e\" I believe in you. I believe in the young. I believe in our fellow Russians. Thank you! We  will be victorious!\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Boris Yeltsin, Russian President\u003cbr/\u003eAs the ballot edges ever closer, Yeltsin is counting like never before on the votes of the  generation that will have to live with the election result.\u003cbr/\u003eRostov and Moscow, Russia / Grozny, Chechnya -  12th and 13th June 1996 and file\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot Yeltsin dancing on stage during campaign in Rostov - 10/6\u003cbr/\u003e2. Crowd dances\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up Yeltsin\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide shot crowd    \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yeltsin\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot crowd applaud\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) McFaul - 14/6\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of shots inside Moscow night club \"Utopia\" - 14/6\u003cbr/\u003e9. VOXPOP: (Russian)\u003cbr/\u003e10. VOXPOP: (Russian)\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot crowd at Zyuganov meeting with voters - 12/6\u003cbr/\u003e12. Closeup Zyuganov signs autographs\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot crowd pushing for autographs\u003cbr/\u003e14. Set up shot Cohen\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Cohen\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various shots of young Russian troops in Chechen capital Grozny - file\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide shot concert on Moscow's Red Square in support of Yeltsin - 12/6\u003cbr/\u003e18. Medium shot crowd\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yeltsin\u003cbr/\u003e20. 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