FACTBOX-Financial crisis sparks unrest in Europe

                                
 June 2 (Reuters) - Hundreds of workers blocked a motorway in
northern Russia on Tuesday when anger at job cuts and unpaid
wages boiled over.
                                
 Here are details on some major recent protests over the
effects of the financial crisis:
                                
 RUSSIA - About 600 people from Pikalyovo, a town of 23,000
people in northern Russia, blocked the motorway between St
Petersburg and Vologda, a witness told Reuters by telephone.
                                
 -- Residents are demanding Russia's leaders intervene after
local factories cut wages and sacked workers as the financial
crisis hammers prices for cement and alumina, the town's main
products. [ID:nL2642787]
                                
 * OTHER PROTESTS:
                                
 BRITAIN -- British police clashed with up to 4,000
protesters outside the Bank of England in London's financial
centre on April 1 during a day of demonstrations against the G20
summit. [ID:nL1545444]
                                
 CZECH REPUBLIC -- More than 20,000 unionists from the Czech
Republic and other EU member states demonstrated for worker
rights in Prague on May 16. [ID:nLG44443]
                                
 ESTONIA -- A protest is due in early June over a new labour
law to make the job market more flexible and to call for more
jobless benefits. 
                                
 FRANCE -- On March 28 in Paris, a few hundred demonstrators
protested under the slogan "We will not pay for their crisis". 
                                
 GERMANY -- About 15,000 people marched through Berlin on
March 28 with black-clad protesters throwing rocks and bottles
at police. Police said several arrests were made. Up to 14,000
assembled in Germany's financial capital Frankfurt.
[ID:nLS437124]
                                
 GREECE -- Flights to and from Greece were grounded for
several hours on May 14 after air-traffic controllers joined a
nationwide 24-hour public sector strike to protest against the
government's response to the financial crisis.
                                
 -- The strike was the latest in a series of protests
following the police shooting of a teenager in December sparked
the country's worst riots in decades, fuelled by public
discontent over a sharp economic slowdown.
                                
 -- Greece may face a recession in 2009 after years of
sustained growth, as key sectors including tourism and
construction are hit by the crisis. [ID:nLE648754] 
                                
 HUNGARY -- Since the crisis hit, Hungarian trade unions held
their biggest demonstration on April 18, with thousands of
participants, saying in a petition that "there is no economic
recovery without demand from people who are able to spend. For
this, wages and revenues are needed". Railway trade unions held
a one-day strike against the government measures on May 8.
                                
 SERBIA - Thousands of Serbian workers protested in Belgrade
on April 29 against government austerity measures in the biggest
demonstration in the former Yugoslavia since the world financial
crisis hit.
                                
 -- About 10,000 members of Serbia's largest union, the
Alliance of Independent Trade Unions, assembled in Belgrade from
all over Serbia. [ID:nVAS948237]
 (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)