Vladimir Kara-Murza: “The future of Russia would be determined in the streets not at the ballot box.”

Every concession to dictators hides a tragedy.

What moral right do I have to call on my fellow Russian citizens to stand up and resist the dictatorship if I wasn’t prepared to do it myself?

As long as Vladimir Putin is in power, as long as there is a regime in the Kremlin that disrespects the rights and freedoms of its own people, that tramples on its own laws and on its own constitution, it is never going to abide by the…

I consider him to be a dictator, a usurper and a murderer, who's personally responsible for the deaths of his political opponents, Boris Nemtsov, like Alexei Navalny, who is personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians…