Political refugee from the Russian Federation: If the West presses Kremlin security officers, they will bring Putin's head on a tray, telling people that he had died of cancer 

The exhibition "100 best Ukrainian patriotic posters" was held at M17 Center of Modern Art in Kiev in early December; it ended with a charitable auction whose proceeds were transferred to Ukrainian serviceman who got wounded in the ATO zone. The exhibition included 45 works of the Russian artist and blogger Anton Myrzin who became famous in the Internet under the alias of Paperdaemon Chaognostic.

Myrzin is an ecologist by training and a native of Perm. To be more precise, he was it until the Administration of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Perm Krai instituted a criminal case against him for public appeals to extremism. The case was brought in after the deputy of the State Duma from the United Russia factionAlexander Hinsteinhad made an appeal to the prosecutor's office. The Russian mass media immediately picked up a subject, having shot a series of reports about "the Perm russophob artist urging to kill supporters of Russia".

A few days before the persecution Myrzin managed to move from Russia to Ukraine. The artist said in an exclusive interview to the GORDON edition about the total fear that seized the Russians, about the fight of the Kremlin clans, that the Russian President is not an independent politician, but rather a puppet in the hands of oligarchs, about secret arrangements of the West with the Kremlin and about who "will bring Putin's head on a tray" and under what circumstances.

– If you remained in Russia, what would have threatened you?

– Article 280, part 2 "Public appeals to implementation of extremist activity made with the use of mass media or information and telecommunications networks, including the Internet". It is punished by imprisonment for up to five years. Knowing the realia of Russian prisons and general attitude towards me after the Kiev exhibition, I perfectly understood that it was a death sentence. It is a cinch to kill one in prison in Russia.

I was sure that I will be persecuted after the Kiev exhibition. I received hundreds of text messages with physical threats. Relatives and friends told me at once, "You should make off asap". The decision to leave was very hasty; as a result, I was in Kiev within six hours’ time. I had one banal purpose – to survive and not to fall into Putin’ KGB clutches.