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Yevgenia Kara-Mursa, the wife of the most important Russian opposition figure, blames the West for letting Russia get away with too much.
Berlin – The wife of the imprisoned Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Mursa, Yevgeniya Kara-Mursa, is making major accusations against the West: They have let the Kremlin boss get away with too much. “Putin's logic works like this: If the West allowed me to annex Crimea, then it will also allow me to swallow the whole of Ukraine,” says Kara-Mursa in an interview with
Tagesspiegel
. The West simply sent Putin the wrong signals.
No rescue from the West: Hundreds of opposition members are stuck in prison camps
And the Kremlin critic's wife is actually not wrong in her accusations. There have been many acts by Putin in the past that have violated international law. Kara-Mursa enumerates: “If there was a harsh response to the war crimes in Chechnya at the beginning of his rule, the invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the bombing of Syria, the brutal suppression of protests in Russia in 2011 and 2012 If it had, then the current war of annihilation against Ukraine would never have happened.”
The crimes also include the imprisonment of opposition members in the country. Like her husband, hundreds are stuck in prison camps. However, the resistance fighters cannot hope for rescue from the West. This is also shown by the case of Alexei Navalny, who was close to Kara-Mursa.
For over a decade, 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. His supporters and many Western politicians blamed Putin for Navalny's death. Some talk about murder.
In 2020, Navalny was the victim of a serious poison attack. After his treatment in Germany, he returned to Russia in January 2021. Navalny was immediately arrested there and sentenced to 19 years in a prison camp for, among other things, “extremism”. Navalny died in February. “It was of course a terrible blow. Alexei was a very talented, very strong politician. He was able to talk to people in their language, as a citizen of Russia,” said Yevgenia Kara-Mursa about the death of the opposition leader in
the Tagesspiegel.
After Navalny's death: Vladimir Kara-Mursa's prisoner exchange not under discussion
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, reports the
German Press Agency
.
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It was only in April 2023 that he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for “high treason” after he accused Russia of “war crimes” in Ukraine during a speech in the USA. It is the longest known prison sentence ever imposed on a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kara-Mursa has been in solitary confinement in a penal colony in Siberia since the end of January
(bg/dpa).