Perm artist will ask for political asylum in Ukraine

The Perm artist Anton Myrzin, known under the pseudonym Paperdaemon Changnostic, emigrated to Ukraine and is going to ask for political asylum after criminal calls against extremism against him. He reports this on his blog.

"Realizing the complete absence of forces and resources for struggle alone with a whole country, which fell into a massive induced madness, I was forced to emigrate from Russia to Ukraine in order to obtain political asylum there, with a possible further prospect of professional growth in the field as political and agitational art. I see a continuation of my activity in space, free from any artistic or ideological. Censorship, ”Myrzin wrote.

Meanwhile, the page of the artist VKontakte, where his work was published, was blocked by the administration of the social network.

The day before, the prosecutor's office of the Perm Territory reported that the regional UFSB opened a criminal case of public calls for extremist activities against Myrzin. The artist participated in the exhibition "One hundred patriotic posters" in Kiev. In addition, the artist’s works are published on the Internet.

"In the actions of the author of posters, the prosecutor's office revealed signs of a crime under part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code" Public calls for extremist activities committed using information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet. Today, the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Perm Territory based on the materials of the prosecutor’s inspection opened a criminal case, ”the prosecutor's office said.

After the organizers of the exhibition reported that the author of some works is a resident of Perm, the Russian hacker Hell opened the Paperdaemon Chagnostic accounts on social networks and posted Myrzin’s personal and installation data on the Internet. Then, the State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein, who demanded to check Permism for extremism and institute criminal proceedings, turned to the prosecutor's office of the Perm Territory.