Article 6QXJ6 Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident

Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident

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Carole Cadwalladr
from World news | The Guardian on (#6QXJ6)

Vladimir Kara-Murza and his wife, Evgenia, speak of his time in a Siberian jail and why the truth about Russia will come out

The last time I met Evgenia Kara-Murza, it was a grim day in early March. The timing couldn't have been worse. As we spoke, Alexei Navalny's coffin was being lowered into the frozen ground in a Moscow cemetery. Meanwhile Evgenia's husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was still incarcerated in a Siberian prison cell almost identical to the one in the Arctic Circle in which Navalny had been found dead, presumed murdered.

The parallels were eerie. Because Vladimir, a journalist turned political activist, was not just also loathed and feared by the Kremlin and imprisoned on spurious charges, he'd also been poisoned - twice - targeted by the same FSB (Federal Security Service) unit that had poisoned Navalny.

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