Here’s our piece ahead of today’s big protests in Khabarovsk about how a governor whisked away to Moscow and charged with murder has become an unlikely folk hero. “The mood is: if the people chose him, then they love him. They forgave him.”

Here’s our piece ahead of today’s big protests in Khabarovsk about how a governor whisked away to Moscow and charged with murder has become an unlikely folk hero. “The mood is: if the people chose him, then they love him. They forgave him.” https://t.co/CF9aibrebs

— Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) July 18, 2020