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After recently losing a major donor, Spare Change News, a “street newspaper” sold by the homeless on the sidewalks of Cambridge, is facing severe financial difficulties, aggravated by the current economic crisis...
Spare Change, a publication of the Homeless Empowerment Project designed to both provide the poor and homeless with jobs and educate the public about issues related to homelessness and poverty, has weathered financial crises in the past. But Eck said the recent loss of a major donor has him more worried than ever before...
...simply go out of business. But disruptive protests would contravene a new labor code passed under Putin in 2001, which sets tight restrictions on the forms of protest available to trade unions. But a Russian state that narrows the options of legal protest available to its people during a major national crisis may be courting serious trouble - it's certainly a principle that Czar Nicholas II failed to understand...
...replace imports. The supplies of foodstuffs available on Moscow supermarket shelves are shrinking as importers struggle to raise credit to replenish their stocks. Even the vodka has disappeared from the shelves of my two village stores - they can't raise credit to pay their supplier. And at least two major national alcohol producers have recently folded...
...Although public talk of a "crisis" is taboo unless applied to "the collapsing West," one sure sign of the state of things is the fare on offer at local antique stores - usually unimpressive when things are going well. Moscow's major annual antique fair had stunning pieces on offer last month, though there didn't seem to be many takers. That's hardly surprising, of course: while banks and companies are laying off managers and white-collar staff by the hundreds, heavy industries are laying off blue-collar workers by the thousands. The GAZ auto works in Nizhni Novgorod...