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...Perhaps the nastiest scandal emerged with a video taken by one of the construction workers at the Olympic site who have gone on strike to demand months of unpaid wages. Posted March 11 on the website blogsochi.ru, the video shows squalid conditions like overflowing latrines, fields of mud, an army tent serving as a chow hall and a shower stall that had been padlocked shut. "It's totally unsanitary," the anonymous narrator says. Another worker confirmed to TIME that he went on strike because he hadn't received his full wages since September. "After a week or so, the bosses...
...government said the total construction bill would run about $6.6 billion, but just a couple of months later, it revised that figure to a whopping $34 billion, according to the Russian news service RIA Novosti. Amid concerns that construction is running behind schedule - a problem exacerbated by the workers' strike, now in its second week - political pressure is mounting for the organizers to build faster and cut costs. (See pictures of Putin on vacation...
...Universal suffrage seems to hover constantly on the Hong Kong horizon, which is why, this time, the pan-democrats have to ask themselves whether even some small reform is better than no reform. Should they strike a compromise or make battle? Five legislators chose to do battle: in January, they resigned in the hope of forcing what they call a "de facto referendum" when they run again for their seats in the resulting by-elections. But the plan is rash and has proved unpopular. The other pan-democrats distanced themselves from the plan, while the pro-Beijing parties threatened...
Greece ground to a halt as workers went on a 24-hour nationwide strike and tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest civil-service pay cuts and higher taxes in the biggest and angriest demonstrations so far against the austerity measures. Although most of the protesters were peaceful - and even included in their ranks uniformed police officers and firefighters - groups of masked and hooded youths waged running street battles with riot police, smashing the windows of banks and luxury stores and hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails. The police responded by covering central Athens with a haze...
Greece's unions, which had waged only halfhearted protests against the first round of austerity measures, immediately declared war. Over the past week, scattered protests involving tax officials, pensioners, garbage collectors and others have disrupted life in the city. Thursday's strike was the second called by Greece's main unions - representing about half the country's 5 million workers - in less than a week. Flights were halted when air-traffic controllers walked off the job, schools and government offices were shuttered, and public transport was disrupted. (See why Greece's debt crisis threatens the euro...