In an interview with FRANCE 24, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who survived two suspected poisoning attempts and spent two and a half years in jail before being released in a 2024 prisoner swap, said Russian President Vladimir Putin was « not only a dictator » but « also a murderer in a very direct and literal sense of this term ». He accused Putin of ordering the assassinations of fellow opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny.
