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...regarded as well disposed to the President, released a survey last week showing that his popularity has dropped from 48% to 43% in just over two weeks. But the real problem for Putin over the next few years may come from the economy, which could fuel yet more domestic unrest...
...Worker unrest is particularly rife in Guangdong, one of China's main industrial centers, where exports surged 24% to $190 billion?one-third of the national total?last year alone. Yet base assembly-line wages in the Pearl River Delta, the province's manufacturing belt, have been virtually frozen at about $80 per month for the past decade, according to a recent survey by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. Factor in inflation over roughly the same period, and average pay in real terms has declined by as much as 30%. The reason: China's rise as a manufacturing...
...Emboldened though they may be, jail remains a very real possibility for agitators. Yet even those who have been convicted of inciting unrest are receiving help from an unlikely quarter: factory managers and their overseas clients. After the riot at Stella's Dongguan factory, 10 workers including Chen, the migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned...
...created the threat of a major state crisis and the disintegration of Russia." That may be hyperbolic, but such open opposition to the government is extremely rare in Putin's Russia - and the Kremlin is still jittery after Ukraine's orange revolution, fearing that some of the popular unrest that defeated Moscow's candidate for President might spill across the border. And independent Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov insists that the danger is real: "These spontaneous protests signal the moral end of Putin's corrupt secret-police regime," he told TIME. In some regions, such as Chelyabinsk in the Urals...
...Unrest and terrorist acts as well as insufficient preparations at the administrative, technical and political levels necessitate the date be reconsidered...