Collapse without warning

Vladimir Putin dissident says Russia will collapse without warning

The Guardian

A former prisoner and dissident of Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will suddenly collapse without warning.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, who spent two years in a Siberian prison between April 2022 and August 2024 for criticising the war in Ukraine, has compared the country's current situation to the Soviet era and the Romanov era, with both systems collapsing suddenly.

The 43-year-old journalist warned that Vladimir Putin's regime could suffer the same fate.

“This is the way things are in Russia. The Romanov empire at the beginning of the 20th century and the Soviet regime at the end of the 20th century both collapsed in three days. It's not a metaphor, it was literally three days in both cases”, he said to The Guardian.

Vladimir Kara-Murza pointed out that political change in Russia can only take place if the country is defeated in Ukraine.