Right now in Russia there is no opposition to Vladimir Putin. Opponents who had or have ended up dead like Alekséi Navalni, imprisoned or excluded from the presidential elections being held in the country this March (March 15 to 17, 2024).

José Ángel López, professor of International Relations at the University of Comillas, also remembers the case of Borís Nemtsov who “was shot dead in Red Square (Moscow) in 2015.” Furthermore, “at this moment, There are two very important Russian political prisoners in the opposition“says Carmen Claudín, associate researcher at CIDOB.

But there are also those who have been left out of the game in the next elections.or Boris Nadezhdin. “A presidential candidate who presented his endorsements, but they have been knocked down due to defects in form,” explains López.

Dissidence in Russia is monitored up to the minute, as seen at Aleksei Navalny’s funeral. Carmen Claudín assures that “there are security cameras even on top of the coffin.” Therefore, the only hope now is in exile and that is where it appears. Yulia Navalnaya. “He has a very strong personality of his own.. They said he was much more resistant” than his partner Navalni.

There is also Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.murdered in the United Kingdom in 2006 by the Russian secret services. Along with the rest of the Russian opposition in exile, he calls on Western countries not to recognize Putin’s possible victory in the next elections.

But, for experts this is not enough and there is a key piece: Ukraine. What happens in that war can hto shake Putin’s empire: “That you can stand up to him, that you can stop him.” That he can be beaten, although in these next elections his victory seems to be more than assured.