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Maxim Efimov

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Human rights defenders

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Petrozavodsk

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Biography

the flat was searched and a computer was seized; the investigation requested to place Efimov in a hospital for a forensic psychological and psychiatric examination (Efimov was brought to court under escort to resolve this issue); The Petrozavodsk City Court made a decision to this effect, but the Supreme Court of Karelia declared it illegal; Efimov went to Estonia, where he received political refugee status and then was put on the federal wanted list in Russia.

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