Vladimir Kara-Murza, serving a 25-year sentence in a Russian prison, on the death of Alexei Navalny:
"I know one thing precisely and firmly - Vladimir Putin is personally responsible for the death of Alexei Navalny. Because Alexei was his personal prisoner. And only on his personal orders could the poisoners from the 2nd FSB service; investigators, prosecutors and judges who issued cases and sentences; high prison officials who created torture conditions.
This man has been carrying death with him for all 25 years of his power - since that very fall, when peaceful people sleeping in their apartments were blown up at night. Then there was Chechnya, Nord-Ost, Beslan, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine.
The best die - the bravest, the most sincere, the most concerned. "Everyone returns - except those who are needed more." And only the vengeful, cowardly, greedy old man still holds on with a death grip, destroying anyone in whom he sees a threat to his power".