Estonian authorities deprived Residence permit for Sergei Chaulin, head of the Russian Citizens NGO in Europe and organizer of the Immortal Regiment in the republic. On Wednesday, February 15, reports interfax.
“Chaulin left Estonia on the evening of February 14,” the Estonian Security Police Department said in a press release.
Chaulin, who does not hold Estonian citizenship, lived in the republic on the basis of a long-term residence permit. According to the security police, it “incited years of national and political hatred under the banner of the anti-fascist movement.”
The agency explained that the residence permit can be revoked if the person “constitutes a threat to public order and national security”.
“Nobody needs me in Russia”
Chaulin has already confirmed that he is in Russia – he told the portal about it MISTAKE.
“Yes, I was deported. They called the police under the pretext of giving me portraits of the Immortal Regiment. There were members of the Kapo (security police). They asked me for 30 pages, they took my phone and my documents and sent them.
I was deported because I was in uniform. “They didn’t even give me the opportunity to seek a lawyer,” he says.
In conversation with the broadcast posttimes Chaulin expressed his dissent with the allegation that it poses a threat to public order or national security. The social activist added that “no one needs him” in Russia.
“Sergey Chaulin, who has a gray passport and is mentioned in the Kapo annals as a pro-Kremlin activist, had to leave Estonia yesterday because he was denied a long-term residence permit,” the publication says.
According to media reports, Chaulin, St. He went to Petersburg. At the same time, the security police said that he went to Russia “of his own choice”.
Who is Chaulin?
Sergey Chaulin for a long time actively spread and supported the “hostile propaganda of the Russian Federation” Russia’s actions in Ukraineconfirmed in the material of the portal Delphi.
“As an instrument of the Kremlin, Chaulin has spent years inciting national and political hatred under the banner of the anti-fascist movement. He also spearheaded the actions of the Immortal Regiment and led a non-profit organization that followed the Kremlin’s policy of partition,” Kapo said in a statement.
The publication recalls that in 2014, “a solidarity rally in support of Russians living in Crimea and Southeast Ukraine” was held near the building of the Russian Embassy in Tallinn. Chaulin called this event “No to double standards!” It came with a big banner.
“The double standard of the West in relation to public protests on Maidan in Kiev and protests as popular as those in Kharkov, Luhansk, Donbass and Odessa is unacceptable,” he explained.
On February 22 last year, Chaulin single-handedly staged a strike near the Russian embassy, which supports Moscow’s recognition of the independence of the DNR and LNR.
Chaulin was also a member and chairman of the board of the Night’s Watch movement, which opposed the transfer of the Bronze Soldier monument to Soviet soldiers in April 2007.
He has been holding Bronze Night commemorations every year since then, but in April 2022 the police banned him from holding the event, stating it could cause “new unrest and tension in the community.” Add Chaulin last spring knowledgeablewhere unknown persons cut the Order of the Red Star in the Bronze Soldier.