Unprecedented demonstrations in Russia: Return of Governor Indicted for Double Murder

More than 50,000 people took to the streets Saturday in Khabarovsk, a town about 6 thousand and 100 miles from Moscow, to demand the return of Sergei Furgal, a former metal merchant who was charged with the murder of two rival businessmen and the attempted murder of a third in 2004 and 2005.

So far, police have not intervened with violence against protesters until the Kremlin hopes that with the time of the protest wave will be extinguished after new details of the killings come to light, writes The Guardian, Periscope follows.

Vladimir Putin could appoint a task adviser to the governor in this region on Monday.

Any replacement is not expected to satisfy the protesters in question, where for eight days in a row there have been unprecedented demonstrations against the arrest of Furgal.

Furgal, who made his fortune in the metal waste business in the 2000s, is a strange hero. Investigators said they have witnesses and other evidence linking it to the murders 15 years ago. His supporters say that Furgal is innocent and that his crime remained in the rage that caused the Kremlin by refusing to withdraw from the mayoral race in 2018. /Periscope