I think it's because Russia has banned bitcoin.
you realy think that?
It is mostly because of Gox.
If you read forum you read it already for sure.
MtGox was suffering issues with withdraws, now they are back but they blame Bitcoin protocol for all that mess with their withdraws.
So here it is - a time, when panic people will panic
so the price will go down. (a bit or more)
Isnt Gox using some type of modified thing for the block chain or something too? If that is the case, its them that broke their own shit and not BTC.
I dont see how Gox comes out on top of this anymore. I mean this wont totally kill them, but I can not see how they get people back after this.