For many Russians, March 1 was a day of mourning. The memorial service for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who perished weeks earlier in a remote Arctic penal colony, was being held in a small church on the outskirts of Moscow. Despite the heavy police presence and in defiance of the Russian government’s warnings against … Read more
From behind bars in Siberia, prominent opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on Thursday urged Russians not to give up after the death of Alexei Navalny and alleged there is a state-backed hit squad taking out opponents of President Vladimir Putin, according to a video posted on a social media channel. A British-Russian citizen, Kara-Murza is serving … Read more
On the identical stage the place her husband, the distinguished Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, was honored for his braveness years earlier, Evgenia Kara-Murza took the ground. She was addressing the fifteenth Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday to talk about her husband—the political prisoner Russian President Vladimir Putin … Read more
When Russia invaded Ukraine final yr, everybody was shocked and scared. However for me, it was deeply private. I’ve identified Putin’s murderous intent for the final 20 years, and I knew how horrible this was going to be. I had been the biggest international investor in Russia till 2005, after I was expelled from the … Read more