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I never chose to be in Russia, and I would prefer to be in my own country, but if I can't make it home, I will continue to work very much in the same way that I have... What happens to me is not as important; I simply serve as the mechanism of disclosure.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.