The Russian activist Pyotr Wersilow is staying under police protection in Berlin, after he was in Moscow, possibly the victim of a poison attack. The DW, he says, his research had made him a target.
DW: How do you feel now?
Petro Wersilow: Compared with last week, as I was not conscious and did not understand what happened, I am now of course a big step further. But it’s not about me. I would probably run a Marathon or something. I still have problems with the See – that is strange, I can’t read with glasses even really look sharp. So Yes, there are restrictions.
But in Essence, it is probably the case that this nerve gas had probably only a very short-term effects, and then disappeared – the many suspect anyway. And that is what we have observed to me.
Your life is obviously in danger. They are afraid to return to Russia?
No, I definitely have no fear. I think that Russia needs great people – we have nothing to be afraid of. If it makes sense, with Bodyguards running around, then it is in Moscow useless, because the people who want to hurt you, they can still. If you do so in Russia in the Opposition politics, you must be prepared for anything.
“The history of Central Africa, was the reason”
They are currently under police protection?
Yes. When I go out or someone to meet, you will accompany me.
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Charité: Pussy Riot activist is better
What do you think was the main reason for poisoning?
I think the most important thing was to warn us that we are not too deep in the enlightenment, whose immersion in what is happening in Africa. (In the Central African Republic were killed in July, three Russian journalists under unsolved circumstances, note. d. Red.) To work with poison, is kind of become like your language. And I think the story in Africa was the main reason.
Was not the reason, that they ran in the final of the football world Cup on the field, to demonstrate against oppression?
This could be. But at the same time, we have seen that the Moscow police has tried in the past few months, to write a kind of new Protocol for us so that you can put in 15 or 30 days in jail. And she did not. The court in Moscow has sent the papers back again and again and said: Thus we are not able to work.
“Artistic activism in Russia is particularly important,”
You have not published any report on their research to the death of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic. They say they have new information. When do you want to publish?
That depends on what we do in the second Phase of the research, and whether we will even start a second Phase. Because, if we publish information, it could complicate the searches.
Would you like to stay in Berlin? With all the creative freedom here you could develop all kinds of artistic activism.
Artistic activism in Russia is particularly important, because of our special political and social reality. Here in Germany there are billions of ways to engage politically, to change something, Express himself artistically. Our activism is rooted in the lack of opportunities to Express themselves – in the West, there are plenty of them.
Petro Wersilow is an activist of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot. Two weeks ago he fell ill in Moscow, and was flown for emergency treatment to Berlin. The Doctors of Berlin’s Charité think it is likely that he was poisoned. On Wednesday, Petro was dismissed Wersilow from the hospital.
The interview was conducted by Vladimir Esipov and Nikita Batalov.
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