The third-straight weekend of Russia’s Far East protests against the arrest of a regional governor drew tens of thousands.
July 25 (UPI) — The third straight weekend of Russia’s Far East protests against the arrest of a regional governor drew tens of thousands of people Saturday. Tens of thousands of people gathered in the central Lenin Square by the head of the regional government and marched for 3 miles through the central streets of Khabarovsk, a city 4,000 miles east of Moscow, in a loop returning to the square. Protesters have been rallying against the detainment in Moscow of Sergei Furgal,50, the governor of Khabarovsk Krai, each Saturday for three weeks.
