21.   Millions of workers go unpaid for months as the economy continues to shrink and taxes go uncollected.

22.   Millions go months without pay and pensions, and their standards of living have crumbled year after year.

23.   Millions have gone without salaries for months.

24.   Millions of pensioners went months without receiving money earlier this year, but the situation has improved recently.

25.   Millions of workers go months without pay in former Soviet states.

26.   Millions of Russians go months without pay.

27.   Schools and hospitals are falling apart and millions of people go months without pay.

28.   Russia faces growing discontent as the economy continues to decline and millions of workers go without pay.

29.   Strikes by coal miners and other workers have been on the rise as millions of workers go months without receiving their pay.

30.   The protests are just two of many in a country plagued by wage debts to state workers, millions of whom go without pay for months.