MOSCOW—Protesters marched for a second working day in Russia’s Significantly Japanese metropolis of Khabarovsk about the arrest of a regional governor, in a screen of defiance days soon after President Vladimir Putinwon a referendum that could lengthen his power for decades to come.
Sergei Furgal, who in 2018 defeated a Kremlin-backed candidate in the race for governor, was detained Thursday and flown to Moscow, where he is getting held for two months pending trial for his alleged involvement in the murders of numerous businessmen some 15 decades in the past. Mr. Furgal…
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