Friday, December 12, 2025

'Putin Is a Murderer': Russian Opposition Figure Vladimir Kara-Murza • FRANCE 24 English

Dec 11, 2025 | In an interview with FRANCE 24, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who survived two suspected poisoning attempts and spent two and a half years in jail before being released in a 2024 prisoner swap, said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "not only a dictator" but "also a murderer in a very direct and literal sense of this term". He accused Putin of ordering the assassinations of fellow opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny.