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Vladimir Kara-Murza

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Russian dissident remains in prison on trumped-up charges

Ukraine

Vladimir Kara-Murza is one of the most well-known opposition politicians in Russia. Like Alexei Navalny, and dozens of other opposition politicians in Russia, Kara-Murza is in prison. Right now, he is awaiting his day in court after being accused of high treason. He is one of hundreds of documented political prisoners in Russia.

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza lays flowers near the place where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down, in Moscow, Russia

‘I know that he will not stop fighting,’ wife of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza says

Conflict & Justice
Police officers detain a demonstrator as people gather in front of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. 

Kremlin tries to ‘erase a nation’s history’ with shutdown of leading human rights org, Russian politician says

Human rights
In this file photo, Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, vice chairman of Open Russia, testifies before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs about "Civil Society Perspectives on Russia" on Capi

Russian opposition politician: ‘Two dictatorships in Europe are two too many’

Human rights
A man walks along a street

‘Putin is obsessed with the idea of legitimacy,’ opposition activist says of ‘sham’ referendum

Leaders
A child looks out from a door as a Uighur woman walks by

New reports on surveillance, ‘demographic genocide’ of Uighurs; Israel hesitates on annexation; Russian election comes to close

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