Knesset Speaker spoke with Arutz Sheva about his current visit to Russia, where he addressed the Russian Parliament - and visited the sites where he had once been imprisoned.
“I definitely can say that today was very special. It started with an address of the plenary session of the upper house of the Russian Parliament, and continued to all kinds of places where, 33 years ago, I was arrested, sent to trial, imprisoned. And I think this very combination of the two caused a lot of emotions,” he said.
“Just the fact that 300 meters from the Russian parliament I remember being brought to the so-call ‘expertise’ to check if I am being interrogated - I think the closeness of all the different places and being in the Butyrka Prison together with a bunch of Israeli journalists and my colleagues, to be taken around by the top officials of this very system, I think it gives you the sense - I can’t define it in any other way - of victory.”