Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
Putin needs to terrorize his own elite. He is more afraid of those in his own surroundings than any protests; there are people there who are at least as critical as I am because they see up close that the system doesn't work. He wants to silence them.
Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.
Without any doubt, I am striving for power.
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.
We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.