Russia’s far east braced for fresh protests over arrest of governor

Demonstrations continue in Khabarovsk after Sergei Furgal taken to Moscow on murder charge

Russia's far east is bracing itself for new mass protests this weekend following unprecedented demonstrations demanding that the Kremlin return a local governor charged with murder.

Sergei Furgal, the governor of Khabarovsk and a former businessman, was bundled into a van last week and flown 6,100 miles to Moscow, where he was indicted on serious charges - the murder of two rivals and the attempted murder of a third in the mid-2000s.