Ural human rights activist Sergei Zykov left Russia

Sergei Zykov, a physicist and human rights activist from Yekaterinburg, left Russia. He talks about this on his Facebook page.

said “I am no longer on the territory of the Russian Federation. The question “when will you return?” is now equivalent to the question “when will Putin lose power?” and can be equated to extremism - ask it with caution from Russian territory,” writes Zykov.

As the human rights activist explained, the reason for leaving was the threat of a criminal case - probably under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army.

“After two people in mid-April - Sergei Zimin and Leonid Tarasov - immediately after drawing up a protocol under 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ("discrediting") tried to immediately take me to the investigator, I realized that it was time. The administrative case “about discrediting” contained such absurd linguistic conclusions from the head of the eshniki, F.I. Zapevalov, that there were no illusions about what would happen in the criminal case,” Zykov noted. He emphasized that even after leaving he would continue to help his compatriots fight for their civil rights and freedoms.

eshnik VS - After the start of the war with Ukraine, the Russian authorities carried out internal repressions: for example, many independent media and activist projects were blocked, several new administrative and criminal articles appeared for the dissemination of information about the war that does not coincide with official information. strengthened - Many protesters face persecution, some - for various reasons - decide to leave Russia. Meduza talks about this with demographers Mikhail Denisenko and Yulia Florinskaya. to the administrative criminal talked