Greece, France, Russia, Iceland: Angry Demos Across Europe
After nearly two weeks of demonstrations, Greek farmers used their tractors(拖拉机) to block border crossings and highways across the country for days, demanding financial help from the government. A farmer hits a riot police officer(防暴警察) with his crook at the main port of Piraeus, near Athens, Feb. 2, 2009.
(Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)
Riot police arrest a farmer after he attempted to back his tractor into a group of police at the main port of Piraeus.
(Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)
A farmer backs his tractor into a group of riot police as they jump out of his path.
(Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)
Demonstrators clash(冲突) with riot police during a protest against the Davos World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 31, 2009.
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Riot police officers stand around a giant anti-World Economic Forum mascot(吉祥物) on wheels after confiscating(没收) the figure during a protest against the Davos forum in Geneva.
(Martial Trezzini/Keystone/AP Photo)
Members of former world chess champion Garry Kasparov's United Civil Front, an umbrella movement uniting several radical opposition groups in Russia, launched an unsanctioned(未批准的) rally(集会) near the Kremlin. An opposition protester, with blood on his face after clashes with pro-Kremlin youth activists, walks during a protest in Moscow, Jan. 31, 2009.
(Misha Japaridze/AP Photo)
A man attacks an opposition demonstrator during a protest against the Russian government's leadership and policies in central Moscow.
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Russian police detain(拘留) an opposition demonstrator during a protest against the current government in central Moscow.
(Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
Police officers fight with demonstrators Jan. 29, 2009, in Paris at the end of the France's first major strike triggered by the global financial crisis. All the country's main trade unions called for their members to take part in large-scale street protests against the government.
(Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images)