From The Christian Science Monitor:Economic angst is prompting more rallies Sunday. How will the Kremlin react?
Moscow - The collapse of oil prices and the Russian ruble have ignited relatively small protests against the government here. But reaction from the Kremlin has been fast and furious.
Nationwide rallies planned for Sunday are expected to draw even larger crowds and will be the next major test of a Russian leadership increasingly anxious over dissent.
Leaders of the still-influential Communist Party, which is staging the upcoming rallies, say the Kremlin's fears were on display during protests last weekend in Moscow and St. Petersburg, when thousands of riot troopers confronted a few hundred demonstrators from the Other Russia, a broad anti-Kremlin coalition, and arrested 150 of them.
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More News On The Economic Crisis In Russia
Russia's Economic Woes Spur Unrest -- Wall Street Journal
Gazprom Threatens to Cut Off Gas to Ukraine -- The Times
Solidarity Movement Rises Again, But This Time in Russia -- About.com
'Crisis' a word best said quietly in Russia -- Reuters
World Bank: Russia may need help if oil falls more -- Breitbart/AP
Russia unveils package for crisis-hit auto industry -- AFP
Putin calls for Russians to buy Russian -- UPI
NATO-Russia Council to hold landmark talks next month: envoy -- Yahoo News/AFP
NATO resumes diplomatic contacts with Russia -- Yahoo News/AP
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