Watch Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza’s candid, full interview on Putin and allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election – all part of “The Putin Files”, FRONTLINE’s media transparency project. Explore kara-Murza’s full interview and interactive transcript here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/vladimir-kara-murza/
Explore the complete “Putin File” experience here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/the-putin-files/
This guy reminds me of Leon Trotsky. Not that he's a Communist idealogue like Trotsky. It's that he's a passionate intellectual who's hard to keep up with just like Trotsky was.
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This was 8 years ago, amazing.
Impressively brilliant and courageous fellow.
What would be truly appreciated is an updated version of all these interviews from this series.
Jeltsin was much ridiculed for his drunken behaviour but still he felt much more humane than current leader. You felt that you could actually go and talk to this leader of huge country without fear. Putin however is eminating aura of fear around him. Not respectful fear, but fear like unpredictable beast or psychopath.
Putin did fool a lot of intelligent people, so much that if he had chosen to build Russia up in the humane way, he could have help to change this world, but of course we eventually saw his true intentions. Never believe in a demonic soul. Ever. Once a soul is overtaken by evil, there's no turning back.
These fascist, selfish, power hungry men who kill without a second thought should all have been condemned and removed, but they weren't. Satan (Evil) does walk this earth freely. This earth was such a beautiful planet. The only wrong gene that human beings were given was which ever gene correlates with greed and inferiority. Strong willed, good humans need to protest in massive numbers against these leaders, for several weeks straight, until they crumble and fall away. Trump and his oligarchs are following Putins play book, perfectly. I'm not including Hitler because, from what I researched I felt he was pure vengeance and hatred for not being accepted as an artist, he was a completely rejected human. Hitler was a timid little, scared mouse on the inside.
TY.â¤â¤â¤ Truth is difficult to hear but it's harder to live through.
1999, the last free and fair election in Russia. This is who Trump is copying. Darkness is trying to overcome our earth, and it's been going on for a long time. The Chechnya war was explained in a popular movie, " The November Man". America was behind it. Why has it taken so long for everyone to wake up and see who the real bullying countries are? Netanyahu, Putin, Un, and Trump are our current dictators.
But democracy is a sham, isn’t it ?
Unless informed and intelligent people are casting their votes. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of ignorant morons voting for whoever seems to appeal to them personality wise and other factors.
I think people who think democracy doesn’t work operate under the assumption that the majority is made up of stupid people so why give stupid people a right to vote anyway since that’s a waste of time because they’ll just vote recklessly, foolishly and make any stupid person their leader.
Some people might really think it’s their moral duty to their country to protect it from a stupid leader in which they’re assuming that they care for the country and therefore superior and more fit to assume leadership and others are not on account of being stupid.
The Ru – opposition is no different from the there government in Moscow. In a recent speech in France, this pseudo-liberal, like a real Russian Nazi, told the French that it is difficult for Russians to kill Ukrainians, so they send other peoples living in the Russian Federation to war. Which is an absolutely unacceptable Nazi statement even for any well-mannered person. And Kara-Murza claims to be a democratic opposition. Unfortunately, in the West, Moscow oppositionists are perceived as civilized people. But in fact, Kara-Murza, Yulia Navalnaya, Yashin, Khodorkovsky are ordinary Moscow cynical imperialists and Russian Nazis who intend to get into the Kremlin instead of the current owners. Moreover, most of them are not ethnic Russians at all. For example, Kara-Murza has a Tatar surname. Tatars are Turks. There are many of them and they are captured by the Russians. Kazan, Crimea, Siberia, Astrakhan Khanate are Tatar states. They were captured by the Russians. The last to fall was the Crimean Khanate. Kara-Murza does not speak Tatar, does not participate in the life and history of his native ethnic group. He is an ordinary Muscovite who works to continue Moscow's power over the wealth of non-Russian prisoners in Russia as if in a cage. Muscovites did the same to the Tatars as is now happening to the Ukrainians and a little earlier to the Chechens. And Kara-Murza is silent about it. This is pure Nazism and there will never be any democratic Russia. He knows this very well.
Any election in Russia is rigged.
I'm speechless. In a perfect world, Vladimir Kara-Murza would meet Donald Trump. But it doesn't make sense that a Russian hero with twice the IQ of the embarrassing little fat US man should meet
However, DOGE investigations have confirmed that colour revolution revolutions and coups are funded by USAID, NED and the CIA.
How nieve this guy is. This hasn't aged well.
How much money did you get to say this lies?
Vladmir I'm sorry but I believe that you are a very deluded and unfaithful man because you have sold out your own leader, country and people for another peoples country and system that is even worse than yours.
If you list all of the atrocities of America and Russia over the last 300 years, the usa have done far more evil.
At least Russia is living in its own country, not one stolen from somebody else so how can you live there and have the audacity to use it as a platform to point the finger at Putin??
Your selfish attitude is an absolute disgrace because you only have criticism concerning the victims of Russia and absolutely no criticism concerning the victims of the usa because it doesn't affect you!!
You are not stupid, you know that democracy is also a tool used by the west to bring down or set up or control nations.
Once you control the world by absolute military power and sanction any other nation that tries to do the same, then there is no such thing as true democracy.
American constantly overrides democracy anytime they like and people like you say absolutely nothing but the second Putin does it, you immediately play the demorcy card
You say that If you go to Russia and do anything that threatens their regime, you will end up in jail, but that's exactly the same principle that applies anywhere in the west.
You know full well that a western style democracy in Russia would mean America controlling Russia and stealing all of their natural resources, is that really what you want?
it woud mean same sex marriages, it would mean the mass genocide against unborn little children, it would mean teaching little childern lgbt, it would mean the abominable act of changing the sex of men and women and many more evils, is this really what you want for Russia??
Anyone who would want to inflict this on their own people and nation is ignorant and an absolute traitor to his country and people
If its one thing that the Ukrainian war as taught us is that Putin is far more civalised, cool calm and collected than any of the western leaders.
.I perceive that you also have the same kgb mind-set but your just using it in a way that is beneficial to the west, this makes you far more dangerous
Russia needs change, but i dont think it needs people like you and the treacherous way that you are trying to bring it about.
This interview was such an enlightment. Watching the whole series now.
I have the uncomfortable feeling he still is not safe. Having him killed now, after the "deal" has been made, would just be Putin modus operandi, a power move.
Ι think's he's talking bs. The problem is not Putin, but the system in Russia that promotes and supports people like Putin. Even if Putin is terminated, other like him will govern Russia.
Izdajnik. 😢😢😢
I am pleased we got you out, for now at least.
Russian opposition is oxymoron, Kara-Murza is a liar and miscovian fascists
Wow. Ok. Now pieces went into this gigant puzzle.
Kara-Murza is nothing but a lier and a thief. He is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
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All the atrocities of the midget of putin here narrated by one of his citizens that has traveled / make him so dangerous for putin. We have to wait for putin to be taken by his own hyenas wearing mink. 🫶ðŸ½ðŸ«¶ðŸ½ðŸ«¶ðŸ½ðŸ¤£