Police crack down on marathon anti-Kremlin protest in Russia's Far East

[rooster59]

Police crack down on marathon anti-Kremlin protest in Russia's Far East

 

FILE PHOTO: People take part in an anti-Kremlin rally in support of former regional governor Sergei Furgal arrested on murder charges in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, Russia August 22, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenii Pereverzev/File Photo

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police in Russia's Far East broke up a long-running anti-Kremlin protest with force on Saturday, detaining 25 people according to local authorities, in response to what they called an illegal attempt to erect protest tents in a central square.

 

The demonstrations, in the city of Khabarovsk, have been going on for the last three months against President Vladimir Putin's handling of a regional political crisis.

 

Video footage on social media showed baton-wielding police wearing body armour hauling protesters away and dismantling tents as a woman screamed "What country do you live in?"

 

Residents of Khabarovsk, about 6,110 km (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, started holding weekly rallies after the July 9 detention of Sergei Furgal, the region's popular governor, over murder charges he denies.

 

The protests have highlighted anger among some in the Far East over what they see as policies emanating from detached Moscow-based authorities who have neglected them for years.

 

Supporters of Furgal, who is a member of the nationalist LDPR party, say he is being punished for defeating a candidate from the ruling pro-Putin United Russia party in 2018. The Kremlin says Furgal has serious charges to answer.

 

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Germany from what Berlin says was an attack on him using a nerve agent, condemned police.

 

"The authorities in Russia are simply scoundrels," Navalny wrote on Twitter.

 

"When half of the people in Khabarovsk took to the streets, they hid like cockroaches. They waited three months, the number of people grew less, they grew bolder, and they then went out and began to beat people for no reason,” he said.

 

(Reporting by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Mark Potter)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-11

 

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[grumpy 4680]

      THAT'S COMMUNISM FOR YOU, same in China.

[Mavideol]

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

"The authorities in Russia are simply scoundrels," Navalny wrote on Twitter.

thanks for telling the truth, I kind off realized that some time ago, Putin is a well dictator/communist/control freak/tyrant/autocrat, peak one, try to criticize him and you will find yourself poisoned

[mlmcleod]

Communism has no meaning in Russia or China anymore.  They are just fascist dictators similar to Hitler and Mussolini!  They have a thin gloss of "democratic" elections with winning candidates all pre-approved by the leader.

[spidermike007]

We have our own version of Putin in this region. Hun Sen. As autocratic, murderous and thieving as they come. 

 

Putin is a major lowlife. Some estimate he is the wealthiest man on Earth. All stolen, basically. Woe is Russia and it's people. Then again, the same could be said of the American or the Thai people. 

Edited October 11, 2020 by spidermike007

[Morch]

2 hours ago, grumpy 4680 said:

      THAT'S COMMUNISM FOR YOU, same in China.

 

Do tell how Russia is 'communist'.