About 3,000 people took part in a rally in Yaroslavl on Tuesday to show their support for Mayor Yevgeny Urlashov, arrested on corruption charges last Friday.
The event was organized by Yaroslavl political activists, most of them from the Civil Platform party, which supported Urlashov during last year’s mayoral election.
Urlashov, who won the mayorship in a rare landslide victory against the ruling United Russia party last year, was charged along with four of his colleagues last Thursday with extorting a 45 million ruble ($1.4 million) bribe, investigators said. The following day, a court ruled to arrest him.
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