Estonia has deprived Maksim Reva of his residence permit and banned him from entering the Schengen area for ten years.
Who is this and why is it important right now?
In 2006-2007, the events known as the "Bronze Night" took place in Tallinn.
The city center, like many other cities of the Warsaw bloc, was decorated with a Soviet monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War.
The city authorities then decided to move it to the Military Cemetery.
A huge number of activists - Russian and Estonian - came to the defense.
Rallies swept across the country, there were spontaneous counter-demonstrations, on April 26, 2006, Russian activist Dmitry Ganin was killed during a brawl.
Even the UN Committee Against Torture drew attention to the cruelty of the Estonian police, and the ECHR recognized that the country's authorities violated the rights of protesters under several articles at once.
A year later, on April 30, 2007, the soldier was still transferred to where they were going.
Maxim Reva was one of the organizers of the Night Watch movement, which defended the monument.
Then he was tried for organizing riots, but the court completely acquitted him.
Reva grew up in Estonia, but remained a Russian citizen.
All this time he stood on pro-Russian positions, and the Estonian state, at the very least, but let him live.
Until now.
Now he is forbidden to be in the country and in Europe, because he - attention - "in 2014 received the medal" For Crimea ", and in an interview with the Estonian edition of Eesti Päevaleht "said that he would shake hands with Vladimir Putin."
Estonia is expelling Maxim Reva without trial or investigation on the eve of May 9, in order to close the topic of the Victory, its celebration, and any talk about the rights of Russian speakers once and for all.
We no longer have any rights.
Live with it now.
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