Huge anti-Kremlin protests erupt in Russia's far east
Huge anti-government
demonstrations erupted in Russia’s far east on Saturday over the arrest
of a popular governor who was replaced this week by a Kremlin
appointee who has never lived in the fraught region. Residents of
Khabarovsk near the border with China took to the streets en masse for the
third Saturday in a row after governor Sergei Furgal was arrested by federal
law enforcement and flown to Moscow on murder charges this month.
These have been some
of the largest anti-government protests in Russia in years, which
the Kremlin said this week were being fuelled by opposition activists outside
Khabarovsk. Tens of thousands of
residents marched through Khabarovsk waving the region’s flag, carrying banners
and chanting slogans against the president, Vladimir Putin, as
passing cars honked their horns in support....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/25/huge-anti-kremlin-protests-erupt-in-russias-far-east