Russia jails anti-war opposition politician for 25 years

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 18 Apr 2023 by Alex Teddy
On April 17 Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced for disseminating disinformation and belonging to an undesirable organization. Kara-Murza, 41, was educated at Cambridge University. He is a dual British-Russian citizen. He returned to Moscow in 2022 despite knowing he faced charges. He had gone to the US earlier in 2022 to spread his anti-war beliefs. He claimed that he was poisoned in 2015 and 2017. In court Kara-Murza was truculent as he expounded his liberal opinions. He said that Russia will be free. A US diplomat attended his trial and the United Kingdom called for him to be set free. Western diplomats denounced the verdict as retrograde and unfair. Kara-Mura is from a political intellectual Russian family and was a former protege of the late politician Boris Nemtsov who was assassinated in 2015. Kara-Murza was also the co-director of Open Russia - a foundation created by exiled opposition businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Khodorokovsky was one of Putin's first critics to be jailed. Open Russia campaigns for fair elections and freedom of information, but it is consistently perceived by the Russian authorities as a mean for political de-stabilization.  Latvia banned 10 Russian officials from entering the country as a retaliation for Kara-Murza's conviction. The US journalist Evan Gershkovich was visited by a US diplomat on April 17 and found to be in good health. He has been charged with espionage.

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