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I'm not sure i get what you mean, why put dissident between quotation marks? Do you doubt he is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Chichvarkin
He's a Russian businessman who became one in the last 35 years. He's "dissident" in the sense that he picked the wrong side.
Khodorkovsky's close associate has been named by French, I think, police as the main suspect for ordering an attack on a Russian opposition figure recently.
Look up Navalny's organization's opinions of all those people. Navalny was a controversial figure for many intents and purposes, and I really hope he didn't return to Russia because of getting desperate and tired of idiots like me mentioning those controversies. His organization might not parrot the western narratives the way Khodor and others do, but it is genuine.
Well he was still targeted, so I'd argue that alone still makes him a dissident. But my point isn't really about this individual guy but about how Russia systematically targets places and people in Europe for various reasons all benefiting the Russian regime and European governments don't publicly call Russia out for those things. If anything happens, it is 'quite diplomacy' or counter intelligents that nobody ever hears about and I'm not okay with that.
That's because western elites are generally fine with Putin. Him being the adversary is business as usual.
While us boors not liking him they are less tolerant about.
Which is also why the main group of Russians with no impediments in Europe are Putin's friends and propagandists and all that kind.