The relatively short delay in initial reports of the event to the emergence of protests suggests the efficiency in which the spread of information by media is capable of creating social movements.
But last weekend the infamous Dima Yakovlev law, which has banned adoptions of Russian orphans by Americans, has led to something slightly different: the emergence of social protest.
But we find one of the most interesting developments of late to be the emergence of popular protest among Africa's rural masses.
Interest in the subject was revived in the late 1960's with the emergence of violent protest movements in the United States and Europe, the experts say.
In December 2011, responding to the emergence of the protest movement, Putin accused the U.S. State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of personally inciting the unrest.
The legitimacy crisis and the emergence of a protest movement to expose the nexus of finance and government – as evident from Wall Street's tremendous influence on policy in Washington – takes time.
Since 2011, we have lived through a sudden rush of history: the collapse of dictatorships, the emergence of new protest ideologies, the collective punishment of populations, unilateral annexations, declarations of independence and the fragmentation of once-important institutions.
Page A4 KREMLIN SHAKEN BY PROTESTS The Kremlin has been shaken by the recent emergence of a protest movement among middle-class Muscovites who are opposed to electing Vladimir V. Putin as president again.
But when protesters came out on the streets, demanding respect and political representation, Mr Surkov, an ideologue with no real ideology, seemed caught by surprise.It was the emergence of the protest movement that cost Mr Surkov his job.
The Kremlin has been shaken by the recent emergence of the protest movement among middle-class Muscovites, who only a few months ago were considered to be largely politically indifferent.
