Thousands in Russia's Far East Protest Over Khabarovsk Governor's Arrest

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Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday, July 11, for an unpermitted protest against the arrest of their governor, Sergey Furgal. It was the biggest public assembly of its kind in the region’s history. Before the rally, messages circulated on social media and on public announcement boards in apartment lobbies, urging people to attend, reports the local news site DVHAB.RU. The city’s authorities tried to prevent the demonstration by fencing off Khabarovsk’s main square, where organizers planned to stage the protest, under the pretext that the area was being disinfected. This police tactic failed, and protests poured in not just from all around the city but from neighboring towns, as well.

The demonstration began around noon, local time. Journalists at DVHAB.RU estimate that tens of thousands of protestors reached the city’s center by the start of the rally. The Khabarovsky Krai Segodnya news agency reported that the number of demonstrators possibly exceeded the crowd size of the city’s annual “Immortal Regiment” march, when as many as 60,000 people assemble to honor relatives who died in the Second World War. Both media outlets described the rally as the single largest protest in the region’s history.

According to the newspaper Kommersant, between 30,000 and 35,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in Khabarovsk, where the population is just 616,000 people. To put Kommersant’s numbers in perspective, consider that Moscow has roughly 12.5 million residents and a protest of relative size would be nearly 710,000 people.

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“Putin, step down!”, “Putin is a thief!”.

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“Let the whole world know about the mess in this country. Is it a constitution you need? We gave you a constitution! And in return, you put handcuffs on our hands! You’ve no shame! You sit there in high offices and, like under Stalin, you take action. But [FSB head Alexander] Bortnikov is no [Stalinist secret police czar Lavrentiy] Beria. And you don’t have enough KGB vans [to take us all away],” Zhirinovsky said.

The LDPR head also questioned why Furgal was arrested so many years after his supposed crimes, speculating that one of the reasons for the investigation is that the Khabarovsk governor “refused to carry boxes [of money] to Moscow.”

“The time will come when we will quarantine you and your authorities! It’s us who will have a revolution, and not the one the Bolsheviks or Yeltsin screwed up. A new generation has risen that won’t forgive you for anything and will punish all of you. [...] Plenty of resources and plenty of people, but some of you’ve got dirty hands and rotten thoughts,” Zhirinovsky concluded his remarks.

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Sergey Furgal is a member of the LDPR party, that is false opposition. This is the reason why authorities let happen a meeting numbering tens of thousands. While real opposition meetings are strangled with all means possible so not many people dare to attend them yet:

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16.06.2020

Анна Соснова
4 minutit tagasi
Где взять такого Фургала в Краснодарский край!?

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Sergey Furgal is a member of the LDPR party, that is false opposition. This is the reason why authorities let happen a meeting numbering tens of thousands. While B]real opposition[/B] meetings are strangled with all means possible so not many people dare to attend them yet:

This is because Khabarovsk is too far of Putin’s location.

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This is because Khabarovsk is too far of Putin’s location.

Pu doesn't have to disperse meetings personally. Sending police from neighbouring regions could be enough. But I don't even see that police tried to stop this meeting. Extremely suspicious.

While the meeting in Khabarovsk against prolongation of working age (+5 years) was this small:

Spoiler!

No meetings against Pu ruling them forever either.

And of course no meeting against false "epidemy" and all the measures that it brings.

Look here (in Russian), the leader of LDPR says there could "a revolution" because of this arrest. This makes this false oppositioner look like a hero in the eyes of people tyred of Pu. The totally false flag.

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this is how it works there, if somebody is too smart and creative the others will bark at him, make false accusations etc.? Do we know it from this forum?

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Осень 2020 - революция или смерть?
https://youtu.be/vVh0rmoTxH0