Russian opposition politician and human rights activist, sentenced in April 2023 to 25 years in prison for speaking out against the war on Ukraine. He was found guilty of ‘running an ‘undesirable organization’, of ‘spreading falsehoods about the Russian army’ and of high treason – likely in connection with his contribution to the Magnitsky Act, passed by US Congress in 2012. Kara-Murza was a close affiliate of the murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and was himself twice the target of poison attacks in 2015 and 2017.
In April 2023 the Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for speaking out against the war on Ukraine. Here he explains why he is confident that the Putin regime will come to an end sooner than many think.