Vladimir Kara-Murza vows to return home to Russia after prisoner swap

Vladimir Kara-Murza thought he would be executed before the biggest Russia-West prisoner swap since the Cold War began.

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Vladimir Kara-Murza told the BBC he initially thought he was being "led out to be executed" when prison officers came in the night to fetch him from Siberia last month.

It was only after being moved to Moscow that the dual British-Russian citizen realised he was one of 24 prisoners to be freed in the exchange - including a Kremlin hit man.

But in his first joint interview with his wife Evgenia in Europe since they reunited, he defiantly reveals on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that he plans to return to Russia.

“When our plane was taking off from Vnukovo airport in Moscow en route to Ankara on 1 August, the FSB [Russian Federal Security Service] officer who was my personal escort sitting next to me turned to me and said, 'Look out the window, this is the last time you're seeing your motherland'," he told me.

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