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Region: Greater Middle East
Khabarovsk Oblast Municipal District, 1955 hours
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An aged black automobile travelled slowly down the main street of Khabarovsk’s administrative square. The sun still hung low in the sky, all the warmth had been drained from it now and the stale grey of dusk had rolled in over the city. The government officials and Party functionaries that had milled around noisily on their way back home only minutes ago were long gone by now. The streets had emptied of cars, the distant droning of engines and the shouting of bureaucrats at bars blocks away were the only reminders of life.
The black car stopped, its engine coughing black fumes for a brief moment. Two men stepped out, dressed in tanned overalls and thick leather jackboots. Both men were of identical size and build, their faces obscured by surgical masks and cloth caps drawn down over their eyes. They made their way in silence to the wide double doors of the regional Soviet building, nodding to the interior ministry guard who nodded in response and held open the door. The two men entered, the guard rushed off down a nearby corridor, his thick-soled boots loudly reverberating across the entrance hall. Most of the lights had been turned off by now, leaving the hall bathed in the same stale light as outside. The two men ascended the central marble staircase, finding themselves before another double door. One of them knocked.
A young female secretary answered the door, her stockings bunched halfway down her legs.
“Good evening ma’am, my colleague and I represent the Committee for State Security. We’ve a few questions for your… boss. Is Governor Furgal here?” One of the men asked politely, taking his cap off to look her in the eyes. She flushed red for a moment as she caught his tone, before collecting herself.
“State Security? What do you whores want with me?” Segey Furgal called out from the next room. He sidled out into view, his shirt untucked and jacket tied around his waist.
“We just want to ask a few questions. Would you mind if we use your office?” The other man said calmly. Furgal sighed and opened the far door to his office. The two agents walked over. One slowly but firmly grabbed Furgal’s wrists and yanked him forward, tying his arms together with a zip tie. The governor shrieked and started to struggle desperately, kicking the air and twisting his shoulders. The other agent took out a black plastic bag and pulled it over the man’s head. The young secretary shook in horror, her mouth open in a noiseless scream as she backed into a corner of the room.
“Sergey Furgal, you are under arrest for two counts of murder, one of attempted murder, three counts of embezzlement of public funds and six of corruption.” The agent clinging to Furgal’s wrists said loudly, his voice not revealing any emotion. The two men pushed and dragged Furgal out of the room and down the stairs. A single high-pitched scream went on all the way down, muffled by the bag. The scream was joined by more emanating from somewhere beneath the ground.
The Interior Ministry guard rushed up to the agents with their prisoner. He handed one of the men a plastic case, filled with videotapes. The agent dropped the case to the ground and crushed it with his boot.
Night had fallen outside. Six unmarked trucks were parked silently in the square. Dozens of black-clad soldiers stood by them, their faces covered by surgical masks and tight-fitted helmets, most clinging to loaded rifles. Their breast pockets were emblazoned with a number:
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Regional Governor Arrested After Decade Long Investigation by KGB and Militsiya
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Sergey Furgal, Governor of the Khabarovsk region in the Eurasian far-East, was arrested last night following a tipoff from one of his staff. Furgal’s connections to the Mafia prior to his entrance to politics have long been suspected by his allies and opponents alike, however the extent of his involvement in their activities has long gone unsubstantiated. In the last week however, that has changed significantly. A senior member of the Governor’s staff, who claimed to have been a close relation of Furgal’s, reported to a local Militsiya department that Furgal had held several unexplained and unauthorized meetings in the previous week with a man known to the Interior Ministry as a significant figure in the region’s organized crime. Since then almost 25 million rubles haves seemingly been siphoned from local government accounts.
Interviews with currently imprisoned Mafia members have confirmed that this individual was involved in assisting Furgal in the assisination of at least 4 businessmen and AUPF party members between 2004 and 2007. Six other individuals were arrested on the same day as Furgal in connection with these charges.
Furgal’s trial is likely to occur next month at the latest. Chief of Khabarovsk region Militsiya has been recorded as claiming: “The best [Furgal] can hope for is hard labour for the rest of his life, maybe he’d find fulfillment that way.”
The decision to arrest Furgal has not been without controversy. The Governor was elected in 2018 in what has been described as a protest vote from both the far-left and far-right. The bravado and charisma expressed by Furgal earned him consistent popularity during the 2018 Fareastern District election campaigns, granting the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) its second governorship and first majority in an Oblast Soviet. However, his performance has waned since the election season, with approval ratings dropping from nearly 70% in late 2018 to less than 40%. His arrest has led LDP leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a long-time political rival of President Putin, to accuse the AUPF of a: “Flippant, tyrannical and barbaric disregard of Russia’s democratic institutions”. Zhirinovsky went on to threaten the resignation of the party as a whole out of “disgrace with the state’s attacks on me and my colleagues”.
The Liberal Democratic Party rose to prominence in the aftermath of Mikhail Gorbachev’s New Union Treaty and the 1992 recession. The party has a focus on revanchavistic imperialism, the restoration of the Russian Empire, the elevation of the Russian ethnicity and the Russian Orthodox Church above all other races and faiths of the Union. Zhirinovsky’s charisma, belligerence and consistently outrageous political attitudes attracted many who were left jobless by privatization and nostalgic for the distant past. Since Putin’s ascension to the Presidency in 2003, Zhirinovsky has repeatedly referred to himself as “The Nevsky to Putin’s Stalin” (though he declined to comment when asked what this meant). While the party’s popularity has declined since the mid-90s, it remains a significant opposition organization and is often categorized as a far-right counterpart to the Eurasian Communist Party.
President Putin spoke briefly to a reporter from the TASS news agency early today, stating: “While I have a great deal of respect for Mr Zhirinovsky, his comments are ironic for a man whose views run so contrary to the Eurasian constitution. I’ve read it myself; the evidence against Furgal was too much for District law enforcement to ignore. I know this is rather overstated, but Zhirinovsky’s so called Imperial nostalgia is far more in line with the fascists of Europe and America than anything this civilization has produced”.
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