The former prisoner who was held isolation shared the details in 'Verdict with Serhiy Rudenko' on Espreso TV.
"We need to understand that Russian imperialism will continue to exist and Russian imperial ambitions are not limited to the life of Putin himself. As long as Russia exists in its form, imperial ambitions will remain. Putin is the personification of these ambitions. The main basis of Russian imperialism: there is Moscow, and then everything else that is subordinate to Moscow," Aseyev noted.
The writer emphasized that Russian imperialism is not the result of Putin's rule.
"Russia's imperial ambitions are not the result of Putin's rule. It is the result of the Russian Empire itself, the Russians' view of the world and the lands that were part of the empire. And actually, Putin denies the existence of not only Ukraine. Recently, the president of the Russian Federation clearly said that the territory of the USSR is historical Russia. Kazakhstan, Latvia, Estonia, as well as other countries of the former Soviet Union do not exist for Putin," Stanislav Aseyev noted.