Putin seems eternal but his "fall will be swift and unexpected" (V. Kara-Mourza)

Last August, Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Mourza was released through a prisoner exchange between the West and Russia. In total, he spent two and a half years confined within four walls. Invited on the "20 heures" programme on France 2, he recounted his experience.

He's a survivor. He was supposed to serve a twenty-five-year prison sentence in a Siberian jail, reports the media outlet Franceinfo. "It was almost a death sentence," he explained. The man nearly lost his life after two poisonings. Why? Vladimir Kara-Mourza opposed Putin's "special operation" in Ukraine.

Today, he believes the release of Russian political prisoners is a "very important message of solidarity from the democratic world". The exchange he benefited from is, in his view, “a miracle made possible by the public opinion of democratic countries". He added, "Vladimir Putin's regime seems stable and eternal, until the moment it falls. It will be swift, it will be unexpected".

(MH with Manon Pierre - Source: Franceinfo - Illustration: ©Unsplash)