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Russia Interview Protest

"Lack of public outrage a concern in Russia"

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Published 30 March, 2009, 15:25

Protests in cities like Paris are more comforting than the lack of protest in Russia's industrial cities as the economy worsens says Fred Weir from the Christian Science Monitor.

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