Russian President Vladimir Putin's first prime minister, Mikhail Kasyanov, who after his term in office switched to the opposition and now opposes the war in Ukraine, has announced that he is abroad.
"I hope it is for a short time," he wrote in a message to Agence France-Presse, confirming Russian media reports.
He did not want to specify the reasons or the date of his departure or where he is currently.
Unknown exactly where he is
Konstantin Merzlikin, a member of the office of Parnas, a small liberal opposition party led by Kasyanov, told Agence France-Presse that he did not know "exactly where he (Kasyanov) has gone, in which country and in which city."
Aged 64, the former prime minister has publicly expressed his opposition to the conflict in Ukraine. He is a member of an "anti-war committee" whose activities are still minimal. Formed abroad by Russian opposition activists, including exiled former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
As Putin's prime minister during his first years in power, from 2000 to 2004, Kasyanov had subsequently become highly critical of the Russian president.
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