Vladimir Kara-Murza

If you are a dictator, an aggressive autocratic dictator like Vladimir Putin, if somebody compromises with you, to you, that’s a sign of weakness, and that’s an invitation to grab more and more.

What is important is that the free world stands in solidarity with the civil society in Russia, and helps the Russian people get the truth.

The only strategic endgame to this, the only solution, the only way to stop this seemingly unending streak of crimes and repressions and wars of aggression that Vladimir Putin has been leading is to have this deranged, murderous dictator…

I very much hope that all those companies... return to Russia very soon... but not because they will cave in to poor dictatorship, but because Putin is dictatorship will no longer be in power.

The only strategic endgame to this... is to have this deranged, murderous dictator out of power.

In Russia, domestic repression and external aggression are always two sides of the same story.

This is why appeasement of dictators never, never, never works.

Putin does this because he keeps getting away with it. He got away within Syria. He definitely got away with it in Chechnya.

For years and years, Vladimir Putin was a danger to us, to the people of Russia. He`s now a danger to the whole world, and he needs to be stopped.

The only way to end this war and the only way to end all of the wars of aggression, all the regressions, and all the other crimes that the Putin regime has committed is to have Vladimir Putin out of power.

The only strategic solution to this, the only way to stop this unceasing streak of crimes, repressions, and wars of aggression is to have Vladimir Putin finally out of power.

If one-tenth of those sanctions that were imposed over the past two weeks had been imposed a decade ago, we would not be here today.