Russia | Kara-Murza, released in a prisoner exchange, on the BBC: “I know I will still return home to Russia”

Russian opposition politician, journalist and former political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza firmly believes that he will return to Russia. He tells the British broadcasting company BBC in the interviewwho not only believes, but knows that he will still return to his homeland.

Russia’s autocratic president Vladimir Putin Kara-Murza, known as an opponent, was released to the West at the beginning of August as part of the prisoner exchange between Russia and the West, which was the largest since the Cold War.

When BBC reporter Laura Kuenssberg asked Kara-Murza about whether he would be ready to return to Russia one day, Kara-Murza recalled his trip as part of a prisoner exchange and recounted a conversation he had with a representative of the Russian security service FSB who accompanied him.

“When our plane was taking off from Vnukovo airport towards Moscow [Turkin] On August 1, the FSB officer who was sitting next to me, who was my personal escort, turned to me and said ‘look out the window, this is the last time you will see your country of birth,'” Kara-Murza said.

The opposition leader said he laughed in the FSB officer’s face.

“Listen mate, I’m a historian. I don’t just think or believe, but I know that I will still return home to Russia, and it will happen much faster than you can imagine,” Kara-Murza says he told her.

The full interview will be broadcast on television on Sunday morning, but the BBC already published excerpts of the interview on Saturday.

Helsingin Sanomat interviewed Kara-Murza earlier in Septemberwhen he visited Helsinki To Alexei Navalny a widow Yuliya Navalnaya with.

Kara-Murza described to HS, among other things, the conditions of the prison. He also said that in the West, Russia should not only be associated with Putin and his dictatorship, but also with another Russia: with people who oppose Putin’s dictatorship and its actions.

“We don’t know when the next chance for democratic change will come in Russia, but we know it will come and we know it will happen unexpectedly, as always before,” he told HS.