9ke9,
Many in Russia (including the government) see those protests (with the exception of the original one, December 4th, which was aimed to disrupt the election in Moscow), as a healthy evolution in Russia. I didn't notice that somebody was trying to suppress them... When you say "mass" you need to understand, that in Moscow 20K-50K is a solid (and, probably, not even big) percent of the middle class. Again, just pay attention on the protesters -- they do not look neither poor nor desperate at all. So, my assumption -- many of them are just working for hundreds of those foreign companies located in Moscow... "Communis t Baby Boomers" may not necessarily be the case in Russia. I mean, they suppose to be, if the USSR would still exist and performed its post-WW2 way lifestyle, but, many of them have been "wiped out" by those "house-cleaning years" (1990s). Remember, the average life spam for man was 55 years? As a result, the current Russia is a relatively (to the West) youth country. I don't think (I may be mistaken, though -- I need to see it by my own eyes) that we are not talking about reeducation of the "boomers" in Russia. I believe, unlike the West, the country simply will pass that stage and go in the future with new blood only... Zeitgeist movement has a lot of Russian subscribers? Interesting, though, not very much surprising. Russians were always big dreamers. May be this is because they are trapped in the cold climate...

Bogdanov

Than ks for the feedback , I'm always willing to learn more , i agree with you, but i was talking more generally about the people that attended not the "leaders" as such , you may fit these "leaders" into the third category i presented, but never the less, if a mass population attends there is always a reason , and the more one looks at it the more it seems like a sociological hangover of what we would call here in the west  "Communist Baby Boomers" and if one was to write policy it would have to be toward education , starting a Primary school , not indoctrination but simple education.

1. What is a market?
2. What is money?
3. How does it work?

maybe its there already but as per the hangover, how could a teacher go from teaching a strict Communist/Socialist doctrine to the basic Mechanics of Money and a market.

Look at the list of how many subscribers the Zeitgeist movement has from the Russian Federation, i think you would find these protesters well represented.

the point is when the Federation has a lack of openness towards their own economic monetary policy , these people believe that this lack of openness is no different to any other countries lack of openness, add that to a general misunderstanding of the differences in the systems and you have group of people that know/think they have to rise against something, but are not exactly sure what it is .

that or they just want more jobs with better pay.

either way I think that's a part of the answer.
It also the reason i generally thin these protests are a healthy evolution in Russia, not what others would like to think.

Hey!

Stop Mocking the Nazis - they are the good guys ... they have more morals, and are more socially advanced than the Americans, and they carried out less Genocide than that Russians by at least a factor of 20!