A dissident freed by Russia within the greatest prisoner swap for the reason that Chilly Struggle has vowed to return to the nation.
Vladimir Kara-Murza informed the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg he thought he was being “led out to be executed” throughout his launch in Siberia final month.
The twin British-Russian citizen realised he was certainly one of 24 prisoners to be freed within the trade when he was on the aircraft.
However in his first joint interview along with his spouse Evgenia in Europe since they reunited, he defiantly reveals to the BBC that he plans to return to Russia.
“, when our aircraft was taking off from Vnukovo airport in Moscow en path to Ankara on 1 August, the FSB [Russian Federal Security Service] officer who was my private escort sitting subsequent to me turned to me and stated, ‘Look out the window, that is the final time you are seeing your motherland,'” he informed me.
“And I simply laughed in his face, and I stated, ‘Look, man, I’m a historian, I don’t simply assume, I don’t simply imagine, I do know that I’ll be again house in Russia, and it’s going to occur a lot ahead of you may think about.’”
Kara-Murza, one of many Kremlin’s most vocal critics, was held in solitary confinement in a excessive safety jail after receiving a 25-year sentence in April 2023 on expenses of excessive treason.
The complete interview will air on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.