Russia, Putin | Vladimir Putin doesn’t have enough Novichok for all his critics

I don’t think Putin has enough Novichok for all his opponents. Because when the war started, a lot more people started speaking out against the regime, and a lot more people will.

This is what Russian journalist and regime critic Marina Ovsjannikova says in an interview Sky News.

Ovsjannikova became world famous last year when she protested the war in Ukraine live on Russian state television.

In October, before she was taken to court, Ovshannikova took her young daughter with her and gone Across the border.

He lives in exile in Paris for nine years.

Novichok, the poison Ovsjannikova refers to, is a nerve agent produced during the Soviet Union.

The poison was used to poison Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England in 2018. And in an attack on Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in 2020, who is now imprisoned in a penal colony for Moscow .

Repression on the scale of Stalin

Ovsjannikova has previously criticized the Russian government and described the Russian population as a zombie population.

He doesn’t believe in changing society from scratch, but he hopes the Russian elite can depose President Putin if disillusionment with the war becomes great enough.

I don’t think grassroots protests are possible. About three million people work in the FSB, the Russian police and various security companies, says Ovsjannikova.

We are talking about repression on the scale of Stalin, he says.

The Hper system is broken from within

Russian journalist hopes pressure will come against Vladimir Putin and refers to criticism of manager Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Kadyrov is fine criticized presentation of Russian forces in Ukraine.

I think Ukraine will start to win the war and that this will divide Russia’s elites, he says.

And it continues:

Look what’s happening now Prigozhin he says, and what Kadyrov said. I hope the system is broken from within, he says.

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Being tortured in front of the world

If the elites were to oust Putin, Ovsjannikova believes the country would be left without a unifying leader, with opposition politician Alexei Navalny in prison.

There is no leader who can bring people together, he says.

Ovsjannikova says she fears for Navalny’s state of health.

He is being tortured right in front of the world. God save Dr.

But I don’t think it will cause mass protests, because the Russian people will be afraid and there is nothing that will bring people to the streets, he says.

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