April 4, 2025
Politician, author, historian, former prisoner
- University of Cambridge
Washington, District of Columbia, United States Contact info
About
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian politician, author, historian, documentary filmmaker, and former political prisoner. A close colleague of the slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, he served as deputy leader of the People’s Freedom Party and was a candidate for the Russian Parliament. Leading diplomatic efforts on behalf of the opposition, Kara-Murza played a key role in the adoption of Magnitsky sanctions against top Russian officials by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, and Australia. For this work he was twice poisoned and left in a coma; a joint media investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider, and Der Spiegel has identified FSB officers behind the attacks. In April 2022 Kara-Murza was arrested in Moscow for publicly denouncing the invasion of Ukraine and war crimes committed by Russian forces. Following a closed-door trial at the Moscow City Court, he was sentenced to 25 years for “high treason” and kept in solitary confinement at a maximum-security prison in Siberia. He was released in August 2024 as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War negotiated by the U.S. and German governments. Kara-Murza is a contributing writer at the Washington Post, winning the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for his columns written from prison, and has previously worked for Echo of Moscow, BBC, RTVi, Kommersant, World Affairs, and other media organisations. He has directed three documentary films and is the author or contributor to several books on Russian history and politics. Kara-Murza serves as vice-president at the Free Russia Foundation, as senior advisor at Human Rights First, and as senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was the founding chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and has led successful international efforts to commemorate Nemtsov, including with street designations in Washington D.C. and London. Kara-Murza is a recipient of several awards, including the Council of Europe’s Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, and is an honorary fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He holds an M.A. (Cantab.) in History from Cambridge. He is married, with three children.
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“It’s completely unacceptable to see senior U.S. officials acting as propagandists for the Kremlin and whitewashing all the crimes that Vladimir Putin has committed against our own people in Russia, against the people of Ukraine, and against the people of so many other countries.”
On CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront to discuss the latest U.S.–Russia talks in Washington.
VIDEO HERE:
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Comment from :
Niko M.
Putin paid to the Taleban for every US soldiers life taken in Afghanistan and Witkoff says that he does not think Putin is a bad guy?! Witkoff has no place in ANY government beyond the state duma and should be instantly fired for saying something like that. It makes a mockery of the sacrifice American troops have paid and my heart goes out to the families and friends of those lost in battle. I can’t believe how painful it must be to hear a senior official of the federal government to say something so ignorant, shameful and insulting.
Valerii Terentev
You can see 🤑🤑🤑🤑 in the eyes of Stepan Vitkov and Donald Trump when they are talking about.
America’s global power and reach are waning by the day as a consequence of Donald Trump’s assaults on the West and his slavish behaviour towards Moscow, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-russia-putin-ukraine-b2725918.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ZAy9y_9fOIZEmQW33XNnm–EKgzz3649zoqXdCpV4zF0Fuuaz_iR6wtY_aem_UzTgQfiKbpeA5m3lvEBX6g
Jason Pitman
The Trump regime has aligned itself with the Putin regime.
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“It’s completely unacceptable to see senior officials of the United States administration acting as propagandists for the Kremlin and whitewashing all the crimes that Vladimir Putin has committed both against our own people in Russia, against the people of Ukraine, and against the people of so many other countries around the world.”
Head Of Russian Wealth Fund In Washington For Talks With Trump’s Middle East Envoy — Reports
April 03, 2025 01:34 CET
I find it difficult to think of a worse possible POTUS and administration than the ilk that currently houses and dirties the White House.
It takes a Russian; albeit a very rare honourable one in the form of VKM, to highlight the immense evil that scrotes like Witless are doing to Ukraine and America.