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“Putin’s gang must be brought to justice,” he said on a poster carried by a protester. Others shouted: “Putin stole our governor.”
This is the ninth weekend of protests in response to the arrest of the country’s former governor Sergei Furgal. He is likely to be jailed in Moscow until December. Investigators accuse him of complicity in two murders 15 years ago.
But protesters say the accusations are fictitious and that Furgal has been removed from office because he does not belong to Putin’s United Russia party. His own Liberal Democratic party considers itself loyal to the Kremlin, but in the governor’s election two years ago, it unexpectedly crushed United Russia.
Most protesters call for less interference from the Kremlin in local affairs.
According to local officials, fewer than 1,000 people took to the streets that day. persons. Protests during the peak drew 85,000 people each. protesters. These are the largest protests in the region in decades.
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