In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service defected while on a business trip in Kazakhstan.
Now a wanted man in Russia, Gleb Karakulov spoke out for the first time in a series of interviews with the Dossier Center
Karakulov is one of few Russians to flee and go public who have rank, as well as knowledge of intimate details of Putin’s life.
In 13 years of service, Karakulov said, he never saw Putin use a mobile phone
“Our president is cut off from the world, he lives in an informational vacuum,” Karakulov said. “He is pathologically afraid for his life. He has surrounded himself with an impenetrable barrier of quarantine and a lack of any information from the internet.”
