It`s a pity that i am not still a European Union citizen

The interview with Maxim Efimov, political refugee, writer, blogger, civil journalist, human rights activist. - What are the reasons to come to Estonia? - The only reason is my criminal prosecution, a threat of my freedom and life in Russia from the criminal Russian state. I am here from 2012. - How have you been persecuted in Russia? - I am a civil journalist, videoblogger, writer and human rights activist. The authorities did not like my activity and one day they decided to stop me. The reason was my critical article "Karelia is tired from the priests" which i wrote, critisizing Russian Orthodox church in Karelia. FSB decided that this article is very dangerous for social secutity and that it insults a social group Orthodox beliviers. They began spying and wiretapping me for two months. And then the Investigating Committee initiated a criminal proceeding, according to the part 1 article 282 of the Criminal law. The empoyees of three security agencies searched my appartment in the night and took my computer. It was huge stress for me. After two months the investigator proposed me to pass the ambulatory psychiatric examination. And i did it. Psychiatrists recognized that i am OK. But it was not enough for FSB and they exerted pressure on Karelian expert group of psychiatrists to put me into the psychiatric clinic for stationary examination for an indefinite term. It could be some kind of freedom restraint for nothing. It reminded many people the Soviet era punitive psychiatry. I would like to share with you the unique fact that i was only person in Russia who had opinions of 16 psychiatrists that i am mentally healthy. But it did not help. And the judge decided to send me into the clinic with the prison regime. Thanks to federal mass-media and international human rights organisations they wrote about it and the intelligence service refused from their plans to take me away to the clinic accompanied FSB employees at this moment, immediately. I had 10 days of freedom to appeal the decision. So, in 9 days i fleed from Russia to West and when i knew that my name is in a Federal wanted list and i decided to ask for political assylum in Estonia because i had Estonian visa. - What are your activity in Estonia? - I am writing my books. I wrote 7 books and 3 of then have already been published, one is in the process of printing. - Your possibility to interact with thouse left in Russia for changes. - My organisation Youth Human Rights Group of Karelia has been eliminated by the court on the claim of the Karelian Ministry of Justice. Now i am just a member of the international commitee of protection of Boris Stomakhin, who is the Russian journalist and dissident. Recently a member of our Commitee from Saint-Petersburg has been attacked by unknown guy. His nose was broken. He is still threatened. I think that opposition political activity is impossible in Russia and activists should flee Russia as soon as possible. It is impossible to resist the modern regime in peaceful manner but only with guns like during Nazi regime in Europe. I would like that the fate and help to political prisoners and political activists in Russia would become a subject and priority of foreign policy in Estonia. - How do you live in Estonia? - It is a new experience and i open to it and sometimes like it, sometimes i feel depressed. Life in Estonia is a new challenge for me and i must deal with it any way. Never give up! - How have you been accepted? - I don`t feel needed here as well as in Russia. There are many intelligent people are not in demand in the post-Soviet space. But i have a great mission in this life and i try not to get lost here on the Planet. It`s a pity that i am not a European Union citizen, because it would give me more possibilities to realise myself and to be a part of European Union family. The temporary residence permit restricts my human rights in EU.