In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, people came out in defense of Furgal.

"Furgal is innocent", - they raised a poster with this inscription on Voldarsky Square in front of the entrance to the “Seasonal Fair”, сообщает Telegram channel "Siberia.Realities" with a link to RusNews.

The picketers wanted to support not only the former governor of Khabarovsk Krai Sergei Furgal, but also all political prisoners.

Residents of Khabarovsk Krai spent dozens pickets and rallies in defense of the former governor after his arrest in 2020. According to investigators, and later the court, in 2005 he organized the murders of business rivals. He was sentenced in February 2023. to 22 years in prison in a maximum security penal colony.

On According to According to sociological research, Governor Furgal has become a symbol of the region's confrontation with federal authorities in Khabarovsk Krai. 

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