Yevgeniya Kara-Murza, the wife of high-profile Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, said in an interview with The Guardian that the West must stop trading oil and gas with Russia.
Only then, when the West ends with what she calls double standards, does she think Putin will fall.
“I think Putin has signed his own death sentence,” she said in an interview.
Imprisoned
Vladimir Kara-Murza is one of Putin’s more prominent critics.
He has been in opposition to Vladimir Putin since 2000, and worked very closely with opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was killed outside the Kremlin in 2015.
He also worked closely with US Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, and hosted his funeral in Washington DC in 2018.
Out against Putin’s rumors
Unlike many other opposition figures in Russia, Kara-Murza has stayed in the country.
On April 11, he did an interview with CNN where he went hard against the Russian president. He described the Russian government as a “murderous regime” and claimed that the invasion war in Ukraine would lead to Putin’s downfall.
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A few hours later he became arrested outside his home in Moscow.
Poisoned
Kara-Murza is said to have been poisoned on two occasions in Russia in 2015 and 2017, respectively.
There’s several examples of opposition in Russia being poisonedbut it is only in Kara-Murza’s case that the FBI has investigated the incident.
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The FBI is said to have treated the incident as a suspected intentional poisoning, reports Radio Liberty.
Kara-Murza himself claims that it was the Russian security service FSB that poisoned him.
The journalist network Bellingcat has revealed that the FSB persecuted him just before the alleged poisonings in both 2015 and 2017.
Risky
In recent months, Dagbladet has interviewed a number of Russian experts on how the war can affect Putin’s political life.
Senior researcher Jakub M. Godzimirski at NUPI has been researching Russian foreign and security policy for over 25 years.
He believes Putin has now become dependent on winning the battle for the eastern Donbas region.
“A Russian defeat in the Donbas could be the beginning of the end for Putin,” Godzimirski told Dagbladet in April.
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