Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Mursa

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Vladimir Kara-Mursa (2017)

Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Kara-Mursa ( Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Кара́-Мурза́ ; born September 7, 1981 in Moscow ) is a Russian politician and journalist .

Kara-Mursa was an advisor to Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in Moscow in 2015 . Together they published an article in the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta in January 2004 with the title “On the Danger of Putinism ” and were members of the opposition alliance Committee 2008 .

In May 2015 he was in a coma for a week after sudden kidney failure. Doctors found severe poisoning but could not identify any causative substance. For medical rehabilitation Kara-Murza spent half a year in the US. His wife and three children have since moved to Washington, DC for security reasons

Less than two years later, in February 2017, Kara-Mursa was admitted to the intensive care unit again. According to his wife, his doctors found poisoning. On February 19, 2017, Kara-Mursa left Russia to continue his medical treatment abroad. His lawyer told the press that "toxic effects of an unknown substance" had been diagnosed . After the sudden illness of the oppositionist Alexei Navalny in August 2020, Kara-Mursa was convinced that he had been poisoned.

Web links

Commons : Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Kara-Mursa  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Russian opposition: Fear for life and limb" , in: faz.net , May 31, 2015.
  2. Julian Hans : “ Putin's last opponent” , in: Tages-Anzeiger , September 17, 2016.
  3. "Kara-Mursa poisoned. Russian opposition activist is fighting for his life ” , in: tagesschau.de , February 9, 2017.
  4. ^ 'Poisoned' critic Vladimir Kara-Murza leaves Russia for treatment. BBC News, February 19, 2017, accessed February 19, 2017 .
  5. Julian Hans: An interview with Kremlin critic Wladimir Kara-Mursa. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .