SCW NEWSWATCH: "Mass Anti-Kremlin Rallies Grip Russia's Far East" - AFP

"Huge anti-government demonstrations erupted in Russia's Far East ... Saturday over the arrest of a popular governor ... replaced this week by a Kremlin appointee who has never lived in the fraught region. ... Khabarovsk [residents] near the [Chinese-Russian] border ... took to the streets en masse for the third [straight] Saturday ... after governor Sergei Furgal was arrested by federal law enforcement and flown to Moscow on murder charges .... some of the largest anti-government protests in Russia in years .... Tens of thousands ... marched ... waving the region's flag, carrying banners and chanting slogans against ... Putin as passing cars honked their horns in support. ..."

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Map of Russian Far East and Environs, Also Highlighting Khabrovsk, adapted from image at cdc.gov