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While the Serbian police force is huge and well-armed, it is ill-trained and psychologically ill-prepared to suppress mass demonstrations.
Revisionism might turn into outright revanchism as the Kremlin seeks to counter-balance internal weakness with demonstrations of external strength.
More than 50 people have been killed in riots, and both her party and that of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are contemplating mass demonstrations to bring down Musharraf's government.
The demonstrations thus served as both an acknowledgement of and a challenge to Putin’s autocratic ambitions.
The result is that, though economic difficulties – rising food and fuel prices, corruption, and unemployment – persist, they have not led to demonstrations calling for regime change.
So Dutch embassies are bracing themselves for violent demonstrations, and the government is considering special security measures.
First, the 2012 law was a direct response to the large public demonstrations that began the previous year in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian cities to protest Vladimir Putin’s decision to stand for a third term as president, his election, and his inauguration.
When demonstrations erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, ultimately leading to the demise of three old and weary dictatorships, no one knew which forces, institutions, and procedures would emerge from the protesters’ demand for democracy.
Indeed, some of the street demonstrations leave no doubt that many people are moving away from religion altogether.
More recently, local commissions, non-governmental organizations, an increasingly assertive media, and sanctioned public demonstrations have become established channels for mediating social conflict.
China’s Hong Kong FolliesHONG KONG – The massive public demonstrations by students and young members of the middle-class that have roiled Hong Kong in recent weeks are ostensibly demands for democracy.
In fact, the current near-uprising is the culmination of a long series of demonstrations since Hong Kong’s handover from the United Kingdom to China in 1997, after Chris Patten, the last British governor failed to persuade China to allow Hong Kong to establish a genuine democratic government.
Instead, it should focus on the problems created by the chief executives that it chose for the wrong reasons, and it should resolve the underlying governance problems that the demonstrations reflect.
The World Bank and IMF have completed their annual meetings, which were greeted by street demonstrations and a paucity of innovative ideas.
In Belarus, an impoverished Lukashenko increasingly resorts to brute force to maintain his rule – breaking up peaceful demonstrations, imprisoning political opponents, and terrorizing the intelligentsia.
Had the United States known what lay ahead, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would not have remarked, after demonstrations broke out in Egypt, that the Egyptian government was “stable.”
As a result, more and more young people are turning to street demonstrations to make their voices heard.
And in many Western democracies, a strong left-wing constituency regularly organizes demonstrations in favor of Palestinian independence.
For starters, the nationwide anti-Putin demonstrations last winter and spring should not be underestimated.
Today, scenes that would have been unthinkable in Hong Kong in 1997 – mass anti-China demonstrations, the election of anti-CCP radicals to the city’s legislature, open calls for independence – have become routine.
The FPI and its brethren took up the anti-pornography bill with vigor, organizing demonstrations in support and denouncing anyone who dared oppose it.
As for the Playboy , it has been met with the expected criticism – but no attacks and indeed, not even any demonstrations.
Yet under the impact of anti-nuclear and anti-French demonstrations, Paris practically pleaded with its major EU partners, particularly Germany, to consider some kind of co-responsibility for the force de frappe.
In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, anti-globalization demonstrations targeted the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Economic Forum, and McDonald’s.
These are not just isolated protests against specific policies that harm their particular interests; demonstrations now involve a broad cross-section of society, including, most crucially, the region’s emerging middle class.
Non-aggressive demonstrations of difference - including Islamic headscarves worn by students or teachers in largely Christian countries - should be bearable.
Direct action by demonstrations has become a regular and often effective occurrence.
In fact, his suppression of the recent demonstrations has already raised questions about the sincerity of his commitment to democracy and human rights.
For example, Spain’s left-wing Podemos was formed after mass demonstrations by the indignados in 2011.
And there are signs of austerity and reform fatigue both in Spain and Italy, where demonstrations, strikes, and popular resentment against painful austerity are mounting.
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