Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was released from Russian custody on Thursday, said he wants to fight for sanctions against the “murderous regime of the Kremlin boss” Vladimir Putin,” – just as he did before his captivity.
He told reporters in Bonn on Friday that targeted sanctions against individual members of the Russian power apparatus would be most effective. Many Western sanctions imposed in the aftermath of Russia’s war on Ukraine still affected ordinary people today, which he called unfair.
Kara-Murza again held Putin personally responsible for the death of Kremlin rival Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison camp in February. But if German resistance to the release of convicted Russian murderer Vadim Krasikov had been overcome earlier, Navalny’s life might have been saved.
Putin critic Ilya Yashin also announced that he would continue his political struggle for a free Russia from exile. He called on the West to campaign for the release of other opponents of Russia’s war on Ukraine, who are now imprisoned in Russia.
More than 1,000 people are in prison camps because they oppose the war, he said. However, the political prisoners would only have a chance for freedom if Putin’s criminal war against Ukraine, which is also destructive to Russia, finally came to an end, Yashin said.
