A RUSSIAN political activist claims Vladimir Putin has poisoned him twice in two failed assassination attempts.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, who organised protests against the controversial president, insists he was drugged the first time in May 2015.

4 Vladimir Kara-Murza (centre) plans to return to Russia following a second alleged poisoning attack

He said that during a meeting with colleagues in Moscow he began to feel unwell.

Speaking witn CBS’s 60 Minutes, he said: “Then I don't remember anything for the next month.”

Tests on his blood in France found no evidence that he had been poisoned but Kara-Murza insists there is no other explanation.

He said: “I have absolutely no doubt that this was a deliberate poisoning, that it was intended to kill because, as I mentioned already, the doctors told my wife that it's about a 5% chance of survival.

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“And when it's that kind of chance, it's not to scare. It's to kill.”

But when he returned to Russia, the political firebrand was poisoned for a second time in March.

He was rushed back to the same medical team who treated him in 2015 and fell into a coma after suffering organ failure.

And according to his wife Yevgenia, there are no doubts about the second attack.

4 The 35-year-old is a political opponent of President Putin Credit: Getty Images

4 Vladimir Kara-Murza (left) claims he has been poisoned by the Krelim twice Credit: Getty Images

She said: “The Russian doctors' official diagnosis is an acute intoxication by an undetermined substance, which is poisoning.”

Brave Kara-Murza insists he will go back to his homeland continue to speak out against Putin.

He said: “I'm the fortunate one, I'm still here I'm still talking to you, many of my colleagues cannot do that'.”

The 35-year-old was an ally of the late opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead close to the Kremlin in 2015.

4 The brave activist spoke about the alleged assassination attempts with CBS's 60 Minutes

Until last year he was deputy chairman of the Parnas liberal party led by former prime minister turned Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov.

He now works as a coordinator for the Open Russia foundation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon who served a decade in jail after openly opposing President Vladimir Putin.

Kara-Murza's latest hospitalisation drew the attention of US senators who used it to warn President Donald Trump against getting too close with Putin.

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