“Russia without Putin. Micha, get out. ” The arrival last week in Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, of a new interim governor did not calm the protesters, who again demonstrated en masse on Saturday, July 25. In this city of about 600,000 inhabitants, on the border with China, the protest has not weakened for nearly three weeks, in the wake of the arrest, on July 9, of the former governor, Sergei Fourgal, accused of murders.
To replace him and try to calm the situation while awaiting the holding of early elections scheduled for September, Vladimir Putin chose to appoint, Monday, July 20, a member of the same political party as the former governor, the ultranationalist party LDPR . Mikhail Degtyarev, 39, is a member of the State Duma from the Samara region. From his first day on the job, the new governor of the Khabarovsk Territory responded to the protesters through a video posted on social media in
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