Evgeniya Chirikova on the exhibition “Putin’s Real Prisoners” in Tallinn

On 22 January, an exhibition dedicated to representatives of small peoples of Russia imprisoned for political reasons opened at the Museum of the Occupation of Estonia. Among the heroes of the exhibition are the leader of the national movement of Bashkiria Fail Alsynov, 63-year-old journalist from Buryatia Natalia Filonova, Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev, mother of Chechen human rights activists Zarema Musayeva and others. Generally, the exhibition tells 10 stories of political prisoners, active participants in the national liberation movements of usurped peoples, and the stories of two Crimean Tatar political prisoners. The initiator of the project is the Anti-Imperialist Bloc of Nations. The partner of the Tallinn presentation was the Congress of Ukrainians in Estonia. The event was attended by leaders of the Anti-Imperialist Bloc of Nations, representatives of the national liberation movements of usurped peoples, and Ukrainian, Estonian and Russian human rights activists, and journalists. Before the opening, the organizers showed a film about the political state of Russia in the last few years of the Putin regime.