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Wide of Sochi skyline 2. Wide tilt down Sochi 2014 Olympics advertisementVardane village, Sochi region - 23 April 2009 3. Wide of Sochi mayoral candidate Boris Nemtsov coming out of car, pan shakes hands with...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSochi - 22 April 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Sochi skyline \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide tilt down Sochi 2014 Olympics advertisement\u003cbr/\u003eVardane village, Sochi region - 23 April 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Sochi mayoral candidate Boris Nemtsov coming out of car, pan shakes hands with local citizens \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Nemtsov talking to local citizens \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of Nemtsov talking \u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway of local citizens listening \u003cbr/\u003e7. Woman handing out Nemtsov's campaign leaflets \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Boris Nemtsov, Sochi mayoral candidate:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The authorities are deadly scared of me participating (in the elections). They have completely blocked all TV channels. None of the Sochi TV channels is ready to give me an opportunity to set out my program, even for money.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. People with Nemtsov's leaflets \u003cbr/\u003e10. Opposition member Gary Kasparov arriving \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Kasparov, opposition member:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a dirty campaign even by very low Russian standards, because there's too much at stake. It is not an election of Boris Nemtsov versus unknown Acting Mayor appointed by Governor (Alexander) Tkachyov, the governor of this region, it is a fight literally against (Russian Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin, because Sochi is Putin's unofficial capital.\" \u003cbr/\u003eMoscow - 22 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide pan of former Sochi mayoral candidate Alexander Lebedev's house, exterior \u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of Lebedev writing at his desk \u003cbr/\u003e14. Cutaway desk \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexander Lebedev, former Sochi mayoral candidate:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There's a lot of various violations: from (the violations) of the Constitution, which is depriving the people of Sochi of the right to elect people who want to be actually present on the ballot, to criminal and criminal procedural laws. And of course, it's a matter of the court being subordinate to the executive authorities, which are pushing their own candidate, Pakhomov.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSochi  - 8 Apr 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of Sochi mayoral candidate Anatoly Pakhomov meeting with bread factory workers \u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide shot pan same \u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up Pakhomov talking \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of people listening \u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up of worker listening \u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid of Pakhomov\u003cbr/\u003eSochi - 22 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of street scene \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Maxim Andreyevich, Sochi citizen:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Naturally, I think I will vote for Pakhomov, simply because I am satisfied with the policies of the current regional and city authorities and I want them to continue their work.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Set up shot of Stanislav Alexandrovich, Sochi citizen\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Stanislav Alexandrovich, Sochi citizen:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Pakhomov is already doing a lot, people see his work. That is why we place our hopes on him. And the main thing is that everyone supports him, he has a team. Both governor (of Krasnodar region) and the President - are in his team, what more to say? Who can beat him?\" \u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of Sochi port \u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of yachts in the port \u003cbr/\u003eCandidates in the soon to be Winter Olympic city of Sochi were counting down on Thursday to one of the most prominent Russian election battles since President Dmitry Medvedev took office a year ago.\u003cbr/\u003eSunday's mayoral ballot is seen by many as a test of whether Medvedev will nudge Russia back toward the democratic path after years of tightening Kremlin control over politics under his predecessor Vladimir Putin, who still wields massive power as prime minister.\u003cbr/\u003eBut it's also a vote that Putin and his party cannot afford to lose, certainly not to Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic who has taken aim at Russia's plans for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. \u003cbr/\u003ePutin secured the Games for Russia and has staked his reputation on their success.\u003cbr/\u003eThose mutually exclusive factors, with Nemtsov's nervy political comeback bid, have made the election a strange mix. \u003cbr/\u003eOne of Russia's most outwardly competitive campaigns in years, it is also one in which the state's efforts to shape the results are on blatant display.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is a fight literally against (Russian Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin, because Sochi is Putin's unofficial capital\" former chess champion Garry Kasparov, Nemtsov's ally in the new opposition movement Solidarity, said at a voters rally on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe mere presence of Nemtsov, on the ballot and on the streets, has given the election more spice than the drab contests of recent years. \u003cbr/\u003eNemtsov is graying at 49, but still as brash and boyish as in his heyday as a young reformer in the team of Russia's first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin. \u003cbr/\u003eHe served briefly as deputy prime minister and for years was governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, where his family moved from Sochi when he was seven years old.\u003cbr/\u003eNemtsov and his party were ousted from parliament in 2003 elections that handed a rebuke to liberals and strengthened Putin's grip on politics. \u003cbr/\u003eHis campaign has a flavour of Russian democracy past, and, for some Kremlin critics, a tantalising taste of what liberals hope will be a fairer future.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The authorities are deadly scared of me participating\" he said on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eAnother competitive candidate for the Sochi elections was tycoon Alexander Lebedev, who has been struck off from the ballot for technicalities. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Sochi court ruled that Lebedev had failed to submit a financial document required for registration - a finding he said was \"simply not true.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHe vowed to appeal a decision that Kremlin critics called part of a dirty campaign to ensure victory for the government favourite.\u003cbr/\u003eLebedev is a banker, investor and former lawmaker whose holdings include about one-third of Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot as well as a stake in the critical newspaper Novaya Gazeta. \u003cbr/\u003eHe has said he would team up with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to form a new political party and seek to reverse Russia's steps back from democracy.\u003cbr/\u003eBoth Nemtsov and Lebedev say provincial and local Sochi authorities have kept them and other candidates off the airwaves, which are dominated by United Russia party candidate Anatoly Pakhomov. \u003cbr/\u003eNemtsov said he has been attacked, prevented from meeting voters, and had campaign pamphlets confiscated.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the same time opposition candidates said they have all sued Pakhomov for purported abuse of office during the election campaign. \u003cbr/\u003eThey complain that his meetings with Sochi residents are shown daily on television and his activities fill local newspapers. \u003cbr/\u003eHowever Sochi residents interviewed on Wednesday also seemed to throw support behind Pakhomov's candidacy.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The main thing is that everyone supports him, he has a team. 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