BREAKING: Moscow court convicts leading Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza on charges of treason and denigrating the Russian military, sentencing him to 25 years in prison.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., awho twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars since his arrest a year ago.
In his final statement last week, Kara-Murza said that he remains proud of standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “dictatorship” and his decision to send troops into Ukraine. The charges against Kara-Murza stem from his March 15 speech to the Arizona House of Representatives in which he denounced Russia’s military action in Ukraine. Investigators added the treason charges while he was in custody.
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