“At least here they don’t beat me and the police are nice to me,” Peter Nikitin, a Russian anti-war activist and one of the leaders of the pro-Ukrainian protests in Belgrade, told Danas after being banned from entering Serbia by the Security Information Agency (BIA) at Nikola Tesla airport this morning.
Nikitin was issued with a deportation order from Serbia.
He told Danas that he intends to file a lawsuit against the Serbian Ministry of the Interior.
He says that he entered Serbia with a Dutch passport when he was stopped and handed a decision refusing him entry into Serbia without explanation.
“At least here they don’t beat me and the police are nice to me”, Peter Nikitin, a Russian anti-war activist and one of the leaders of the pro-Ukrainian protests in Belgrade, who was visited by the Security Information Agency (BIA) at Nikola Tesla airport this morning, told Danas.
Nikitin is ordered to be deported from Serbia.
He told Danas that he intends to file a lawsuit against the Serbian Ministry of the Interior.
He says he entered Serbia with a Dutch passport when he was stopped and handed a decision refusing him entry into Serbia without explanation.
Asked why the BIA is demanding his deportation, Nikitin says that there is no explanation and that the police officers who handed him the decision refusing him entry into Serbia said that “the order came from above”.
He stresses that he has never had a similar situation, nor has he ever been summoned to the BIA premises for questioning.
He is currently in the Belgrade airport border area waiting for…
“I have nowhere to go back to. I have a permanent residence in Serbia. I have a Serbian ID card, citizenship. I have two children here. This is a violation of the law.”
To deport him, he adds, they would have to terminate his permanent residence, but even then they have no grounds to seek deportation, as he has committed no offence.
“My assumption is that I am considered a danger to national security because I am openly opposed to the war that Russia is waging in Ukraine.”
Nikitin stresses that he is disappointed and surprised by this disrespect for the law in Serbia.
The situation he is going through, he says, reminds him of the Russian Federation, of which he is a citizen, which reprimands “disobedient and unfit citizens”.
At least here, he repeats, I am not being beaten./Danas/
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