Vladimir Kara-Murza: “This regime that is empowering our country today, it's not just corrupt, it's not just kleptocratic. It's not just…”

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?

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…

I was certain that I was going to end my life in Putin's prison.

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…