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By comparison, the maximum term for murder and rape in Russia is 15 years. Kara-Murza's conviction is the longest sentence for political activity since the fall of the Soviet Union, and the length of the sentence is comparable only to Stalin's purges in the 1930s. [96] Kara-Murza compared his case to show trials from the Stalin era. [97]
According to director Vladimir Kara-Murza, the principal goal of his documentary was to show that even a small group of citizens that is prepared to defend dignity and freedom is eventually able to prevail over a totalitarian dictatorship. They Chose Freedom was premiered on RTVi network in October 2005.
Kara-Murza continued his Grani programme, which enjoyed some of the highest viewer ratings on Russian television. In June 2003, TVS, Russia's last independent television channel, was removed from the air by order of the Press Ministry. From August 2003, Kara-Murza was the evening news anchor at RTVi channel.
Kara-Murza, a British-Russian citizen, is serving a 25-year sentence for treason at Penal Colony No. 7 in the Siberian city of Omsk. His comments came as he appeared via a video link in a court ...
Russia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza against his 25-year jail sentence on treason and other charges, according to a Reuters reporter at the court on ...
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician serving a lengthy jail sentence for treason, has been transferred to a prison hospital, his wife Evgenia said Friday.
Nemtsov is a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader who was assassinated in Moscow on February 27, 2015.It was written, directed, and narrated by Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian journalist and historian and a longtime friend and colleague of Nemtsov.
Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza faces a long and arduous transfer from a Siberian penal colony to a Moscow court to appeal against his 25-year sentence on treason and other charges, his ...