Special envoy to Khabarovsk
They are about twenty, young and old, to meet every day, at 6 p.m., for a year, in two groups, on the large Komsomolskaya square and on that of Friendship, at the other end of the city center. from Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East.
"Free Fourgal,"
proclaim their banners.
Arrested on July 9, 2020 and dismissed from his post, “their” governor, Sergei Fourgal, at the head of the region for two years, was taken the next day to Moscow to be imprisoned there.
Suddenly accused of having been involved in a murder case dating back fifteen years, this popular elected representative who disturbed the power risks twenty years in prison.
The date for his trial has still not been set.
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“Fourgal is my governor, I voted for him and he was illegally arrested, he was stolen from us. I have been protesting since day one and I will continue, ”
says Nikita Karayev, one of the figures of the movement, which, at its peak, last fall, brought down
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