Vladimir Kara-Murza: “This is what they would want me to do, to flee, to get scared and to flee. And I will not give them the satisfaction.”

[The] principle of ‘following local laws, no matter what they are’ provides a convenient excuse. But it’s just that: an excuse and a moral dodge.

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…

There are absolutely no limits to what Vladimir Putin can do. I think the world is seeing this loud and clear now as we're witnessing this large scale land war, this large scale war crime happening right at the heart of Europe.

The criminals are those who are waging this war, not those of us who are speaking out against.