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Thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday in Khabarovsk, a city in Russia’s Far East, protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s handling of a regional political crisis and the poisoning of Alexei Navalny’s opponent, Reuters reports.
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“Putin, have some tea!” The protesters chanted, referring to the circumstances in which Aleksei Navalny’s opponent felt bad last week, News.ro reports.
Transferred to Germany, the 44-year-old lawyer, an anti-corruption blogger, was put into an induced coma.
Residents of Habrovsk, a city about 6,100 kilometers east of Moscow, have been protesting weekly since the arrest of Sergei Furgal on July 9, following murder charges against the people’s governor of the region.
Furgal’s supporters denounce the arrest as a political decision.
During the demonstration, they denounced, through messages inscribed on posters, the “repression” and the “dictatorship” and demanded the release of Furgal and his return to Khabarovsk.
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