What Vladimir Kara-Murza is known for – Picture of the Day – Kommersant

Moscow City Court acknowledged Oppositionist and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza (recognized as a foreign agent) guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), public dissemination of false information about the army (clause “d” part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and activities of an undesirable organization (Art. 1 article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony. What Vladimir Kara-Murza is known for – in the help of Kommersant.

Kara-Murza Vladimir Vladimirovich was born on September 7, 1981 in Moscow. In 2003 he graduated from the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge (UK).

The son of a journalist, member of the Academy of Russian Television Vladimir Kary-Murza. He has worked in the media since the age of 16. From 1997 to 2000, he was a correspondent for the Novye Izvestia newspaper. In 2000–2004, he was a correspondent and columnist for the Kommersant publishing house. At the same time, he headed the Russian Investment Review magazine.

From 2004 to 2012, he was the head of the RTVi television company in Washington. At this time, he released an interview with businessman Sergei Kolesnikov about the construction of a palace near Gelendzhik (the so-called “Putin’s palace”).

He was associated with several democratic parties. From 1999 to 2001 he was a member of the Democratic Choice of Russia party, from 2001 to 2009 he was a member of the Union of Right Forces party. In 2000-2003, he was an adviser to Boris Nemtsov, Chairman of the Union of Right Forces faction in the Russian State Duma, and authorized representative of the Union of Right Forces in the UK. In the elections to the State Duma of Russia, he was nominated from the SPS and Yabloko parties.

In 2007–2008, he coordinated an initiative group to nominate human rights activist and Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky for the presidential elections in Russia. In March 2010, he signed an appeal demanding the resignation of the then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called “Putin must go.”

Since February 2011, he has been promoting the Magnitsky Act, in particular, he has spoken in the United States Congress and the European Parliament as a representative of the Russian opposition.

In June 2012, he joined the political council of the People’s Freedom Party (PARNAS). In October 2012, he was elected to the opposition coordinating council, took 21st out of 30 places in the general civil list.

He was also the coordinator, deputy chairman of Open Russia (liquidated; connected, according to law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, with the British Open Russia Civic Movement, which was recognized as undesirable), headed the Boris Nemtsov Foundation.

In May 2015, he was hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning and put into an artificial coma. The treatment was carried out by the chief resuscitator of Moscow, Denis Protsenko.

In February 2017, he was again hospitalized with signs of poisoning. A diagnosis of “toxic effect of an unaccounted for substance” was made. Later, the oppositionist ordered research in France, which showed an excess of manganese (59.5 times), copper (1.8 times), zinc (2.25 times), mercury (1.2 times).

In December 2015, Vladimir Kara-Murza submitted his first application to the ICR with a request to initiate a criminal case on attempted murder (Article 30 and Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Later, he repeated the attempts and stated about the “involvement of representatives of the Russian special services.” According to his lawyers, the Investigative Committee issued several refusals to initiate criminal cases based on the statements of Vladimir Kara-Murza.

From 2019 to 2021, he served as vice president of the US-registered Free Russia Foundation (“Free Russia”; associated with businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, recognized as a foreign agent; in 2019, the NGO was included in the list of organizations undesirable in the Russian Federation). In October 2021, he held a “conference in support of political prisoners” at the Sakharov Center (recognized as a foreign agent) in Moscow, which, according to the investigation, was paid for by this organization.

From September 2019 to February 2022, he hosted broadcasts on Ekho Moskvy radio and Radio Liberty (included in the register of media-foreign agents).

In February 2022, he joined the Anti-War Committee of Russia. In April 2022, he was detained in the courtyard of his house for disobeying a police officer. The detention protocol states that he “behaved inappropriately, changed the trajectory of movement, quickened his pace and, when asked to stop, tried to hide.”

On April 22, 2022, he was included by the Ministry of Justice in the list of individuals who are foreign agents.

In October 2022, he was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.