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People hold posters reading &quot;Freedom for Sergei Furgal, I'm, we are Sergei Furgal, &quot;Give us Furgal back,&quot; &quot;Call Furgal home&quot; during an unsanctioned protest in support of Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region, who was interrogated ordered held in jail for two months, in Khabarovsk, 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 18, 2020. Thousands of demonstrators in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk gather to protest against the arrest of the region's governor on charges of involvement in multiple murders. (AP Photo/Igor Volkov)

Mass protests rock Russian Far East city, challenge Kremlin

By YULIA KHOROVENKOVA and DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

People hold posters that read: &quot;Freedom for Sergei Furgal&quot; and &quot;Putin to Resign!&quot;, during an unsanctioned protest in support of Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region, in Khabarovsk, 6100 kilometers (3800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 12, 2020. Sergei Furgal was arrested Thursday and flown to Moscow where he was interrogated and ordered held in jail for two months. Russia’s main criminal investigation body says he is suspected of involvement in several murders of businessmen in 2004 and 2005, before his political career began. (AP Photo/Igor Volkov)

Thousands in Russia’s Far East protest governor’s jailing

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