We need to learn from those past mistakes, from those past lessons, to make sure we do not repeat these failures the next time a window of opportunity for change in Russia opens, - says Russian oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza,

Western governments and Russia's exiled opposition should begin laying the groundwork for Russia's democratic transition after President Vladimir Putin eventually leaves office, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician,

Exclusive: Key British-Russian activist tells Tom Watling that even if he and other opposition leaders are killed, others will come in their place to challenge Putin, as he thanked The Independent for

British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza who was freed from a Siberian penal camp in a historic prisoner swap last month believes that the fall of Vladimir Putin is "inevitable"