Wife of Kremlin critic Kara-Mursa: “The West sent Putin the wrong signals”. Hundreds of opposition members are stuck in prison camps.

Alexei Navalny was the Kremlin's biggest critic. For this he was harassed, poisoned and imprisoned. He died on February 16th at the age of 47 in a penal colony in the Arctic Circle. After Navalny's death, his employees said that negotiations to release the Putin critic as part of a prisoner exchange were in a "final phase" Yevgeniya Kara- Mursa said she had “no knowledge of ongoing negotiations’ for her husband’s release.