Many thousands are in the streets of Khabarovsk, 4,000 miles east of Moscow, for the 3rd Saturday straight in the biggest protests Russia’s regions have seen in many years. It took 14 minutes for the march to pass by me here: 
This was sparked by the arrest of a popular governor, Sergei Furgal. Khabarovites widely saw it as Putin’s move to get rid of an insufficiently loyal official.
Here people chant “Freeedom!” and “Putin’s resignation is the best amendment!” — a reference to the recent constitutional vote that gives Putin the chance to rule til 2036.
This is also the explosion of people’s building, pent-up frustration with corruption, economic stagnation, and stifled freedoms — an anger that can be felt across the country.
The protests have been going on for 2 weeks, and the police have largely not interfered.
Many of the most devoted protesters say they’ve never done this before — people like this couple I met last night, a retired trucker and accountant. “We realized that it’s not that there is something wrong with us. We realized that there is something wrong with the country.”
People help each other out at the water pump.
The state media have largely ignored the protests. But they’re being live-streamed by a plethora of YouTubers.
Passing cars honk, record, offer the occasional high five.
The sidewalk vendor who sold me these forest raspberries said she would join the protests if she didn’t have to work. “What did our granddads fight for? Not for poverty or for the oligarchs sitting over there in the Kremlin.”
A Telegram channel sympathetic to the protests claims 95,000 participants. It’s certainly tens of thousands.
Lenin Square.
The crowd chants “Putin resign!” in front of what they call the “White House” here — the headquarters of the regional government.
A remarkable outpouring of anger with little precedent in post-Soviet Russia, and stark testimony to the discontent that President Vladimir V. Putin faces across the country. nytimes.com/2020/07/25/wor…
