Thousands of people have demonstrated in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, demanding answers and calling for the regional government’s resignation as grief mixed with anger after a fire at a busy shopping mall killed 64 people, many of them children.
The crowd swelled from a few hundred people to several thousand filling a central square in the city, where President Vladimir Putin traveled early on March 27 and promised to punish the guilty in his first public comments on the disaster.
