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From Our Own Correspondent: Unrest in Russia's eastern outpost

25/07/2020

Unrest in Russia's eastern outpost

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Unrest in Russia's eastern outpost

Stories from Brazil, Hungary, Venice, Cuba and from one of Russia's eastern outposts.

Stories from Brazil, Hungary, Venice, Cuba and on the demonstrations in Russia's eastern city of Khabarovsk against the removal of the regional governor. With Kate Adie.

Tens of thousands of people in Russia's Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk have been demonstrating against the removal of the popular local governor Sergei Furgal. He was arrested on old murder charges dating back 15 years, and taken to Moscow. He had beaten the Kremlin-appointed candidate in the elections. Steve Rosenberg reports on the mood in a city closer to Tokyo than Moscow. 
A five-year old black boy has died in Brazil, while briefly under the care of a white woman. This has renewed questions about racism in Brazil, which likes to think of itself as being free of racial discrimination.  But it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, and the police kill thousands of young black men a year. Katy Watson reports. 
Laszlo Bogdan was mayor of Cserdi in Hungary, which became known for the "Cserdi miracle" as he was reported to reduce the local crime rate to zero, and young women now go on to university rather than become teenage mothers. Bogdan was a Roma, or Gypsy, as are many villagers. But last week he died - in an apparent suicide. Nick Thorpe had met him many times.
Venice has just celebrated the annual festival of the Holy Redeemer, in thanks for the end of the bubonic plague in the sixteenth century. Normally the Redeemer events are a crowded affair, in a city that’s drowning in mass tourism in the summer.  But this year, the Venetians have their city, and celebrations, to themselves. And some would like it to stay that way, as Julia Buckley has been finding out.  
Cuba's most popular sport is baseball, unlike in other Latin American countries where football reigns supreme. But that has been changing, and more and more Cubans now play football. Many follow foreign teams, particularly Spain's Barcelona and Real Madrid. And then there are the die-hard fans of the newly-crowned Premier League champion Liverpool. Among them, Will Grant.  

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