Macgupta, isn't the end of your quote saying EXACTLY the same Aigarius said? "Most people dispersed, but several hundred protesters remained and started throwing snowballs and cobblestones at government buildings." Yes, there were protests, but these were nowhere on the scale to what happened in other countries. Much of the (temporary) emigration was in large part caused by many people having high mortgage loans which they were not ready to default upon. That's not to say there weren't other reasons, of course.