This feels really surreal, this feels like a film, I was certain I was going to die in [President Vladimir] Putin's prison," Kara-Murza said, adding that a week ago he was in Siberia, yesterday was at Lefotovo airport and "we're here now on the wonderful Rhine River."
Yashin said he was taken out of Russia against his will and wanted to stay in the country but agreed with the swap out of concern that the exchange would be canceled.
"I will not go to a person I consider a tyrant, a murderer, an enemy of his own country for a favor," Yashin said. "We never gave our consent [to be expelled from Russia], yet here we are."
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