If the court accepts the prosecutor’s request for the maximum 25-year term for Vladimir Kara-Murza, it would be the harshest punishment to date of a politician or activist for criticizing Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Kara-Murza was the victim of two suspected poisoning attacks in Russia in 2015 and 2017. The Bellingcat investigative news site has reported that Kara-Murza was trailed repeatedly by the same team of agents from the Federal Security Service that poisoned the opposition politician Alexei Navalny in August 2020.
Amid repeated military failures and setbacks, Putin has blamed the West for the war and suspended the last nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, plunging relations between Washington and Moscow into their most serious crisis since the Cold War. Kara-Murza was initially charged with spreading disinformation about the Russian military after a speech to the Arizona House of Representatives about Russia’s bombings of Ukrainian cities. Later other charges, including treason and cooperating with an undesirable organization, Open Russia, were added.
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