Roger Boyes writes in today’s Times of London about an increasing number of protests and riots seen in Iceland, Latvia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia over the last months, most of them calling for changes in government, as people respond to the effects of the financial crisis.
He quotes LSE economist Robert Wade, who has warned that large-scale civil unrest is on its way in Europe:
“It will be caused by the rise of general awareness throughout Europe, America and Asia that hundreds and millions of people in rich and poor countries are experiencing rapidly falling consumption standards; that the crisis is getting worse, not better, and that it has escaped the control of public authorities, national and international,” he said.
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I think that putting on the same level what happens in Iceland, Latvia, Bulgaria, Greece, with what happened in Russia is totatly stratospoheric .The ” Russian scenario ” that somme ” experts ” forecast for Russia happens in the streets of Athens , Riga , Sofia , Reykkjavik , everywhere in Europe but not in …………..Russia !Whereas everybody is looking to ” House Russia ” , expecting for the tyniest smoke to become a fire which will set ablaze this country , they don’t see the fire which is burning from the cellar to the attic of ” House Europe ” !The gatherings of Reykjavik in front of the Althing represents 1% of Icelandic population which would mean more than 1.3 million people on the Red Square or in front of the Duma ……..1.3 millon Russians waging an urban guerilla with the OMONs .Let’s be serious !