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another long time putin opponent, vladimir kara—murza, another long—time putin opponent, vladimir kara—murzaocked up in one of russia's penal colonies. like navalny, this politician, activist and anti—putin campaigner survived attempted assassination by poisoning — in his case, twice. my colleague sarah montague spoke to him in 2017 from washington, where he was then recovering from his second poisoning. she asked him why he thought he had been targeted. first of all, if you look at the track record over the last several years, they seem to be an extremely high mortality rate for some reason among people who have either been critics and political opponents of mr putin's regime or people engaged in independentjournalism. and as you well know, these people have died in different ways, some of them strange, mysterious ways, not only inside russia, but also outside, primarily in your own country where you are now. so, you know, this doesn't really fit into a normal statistical model, this high mortality rate. and in terms of my own case, again, i don't have any specific information. i didn't rec

vladimir kara—murza returned to russia two months after putin's full scale invasion of ukraine. just days later and has been in prison ever since. last april, he was sentenced to 25 years for treason based on his criticism of putin's invasion. his wife, yevgeny kara—murza, stayed in the us with their three children and she now campaigns on his behalf. i spoke to her last year from her adopted home in the united states and she described the unbreakable will of her husband. as i said, in 2015 and 2017, my husband was poisoned. and both times the doctors gave him a 5% chance of survival. he was very lucky to survive. and he relearned how to walk and talk and, you know, carry out the simplest of tasks. and then he continued his work because he believes it to be more important, bigger than himself, if you want. and i've always known who i married to. i've lived with him for almost 20 years. and i deeply admire and respect my husband for his steadfastness in his fight for his principled stand, and for his refusal to back down and refusal to be intimidated no matter what. i deeply resp

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vladimir kara—murza returned to russia two months after putin's full scale invasion of ukraine.ny kara—murza, stayed in the us with their three children and she now campaigns on his behalf. i spoke to her last year from her adopted home in the united states and she described the unbreakable will of her husband. as i said, in 2015 and 2017, my husband was poisoned. and both times the doctors gave him a 5% chance of survival. he was very lucky to survive. and he relearned how to walk and talk and, you know, carry out the simplest of tasks. and then he continued his work because he believes it to be more important, bigger than himself, if you want. and i've always known who i married to. i've lived with him for almost 20 years. and i deeply admire and respect my husband for his steadfastness in his fight for his principled stand, and for his refusal to back down and refusal to be intimidated no matter what. i deeply respect and admire him for that, and i'm going to fight for him for as long as i stand. that is a powerful sentiment. ijust wonder whether you've had any opportunity to

enters its third year, putin gets ever stronger in punishing any dissent at home people like vladimir kara-murza remain in jail. >> so now to my >> conversation with his wife, evgenia kara-murza, who is central in the increasingly female lead fight for human rights and democracy in russia evgenia kara-murza, welcome to the program >> hello christiane. thank you very much for inviting me, but i'd like to ask you in light of your husband's persistent imprisonment in moscow in russia, and also being a one-year anniversary since the journalist evan gershkovich was taken his family tries to reach him. i know you try to read your husband and your kids. you try to get them to talk to him >> how do you do it? when was the last time you manage and how long can you talk? four the last time i talked to my husband was last summer in summer 2023 my kids were allowed 15 minutes on coal with their dad at the end of december of last year? and since we have three kids it meant that each of them got five minutes on the phone with their dad and that was the first call in over half a year? and i obviously had two m

and evgenia kara-murza is advocacy director at the free russia foundation which seeks to promote a free, democratic and peaceful russia. her husband, russian opposition politician vladimir a political prisoner in russia. thanks very much to both of you. welcome back to the "newshour." what is your assessment of how the election went, as well as the calls for protest? the noon against putin that we saw people in some parts of russia, but also across the world. evgenia: well, first of all, thank you for the invitation. and, as, to the election, so-called election, i don't think that this process that took part in russia over three days can be called an election, because it has nothing to do with a democratic process that is called election in any normal democratic country. this was vladimir putin reappointing himself yet again for the fifth time as the president of the russian federation, in violation of many international laws, and having completely destroyed the russian constitution through the so-called referendum in 2020, which basically made him into its czar forever. so, this process, i don't believe that it can be considered and accepted as a legitimate process by

but paul whelan, a former marine vladimir kara-murza, washington post contributing columnist whose sense to 25 years in prison radio free europe, radio liberty, dual citizen. i'll sue chroma shiva and countless others. so yeah, putin may think he's winning in the short term but in the long term, all dictators eventually lose. in the long term and the moral arc of the universe, which bends towards justice is martin luther king said journalism is not a crime in the universal sense, though it may be criminal in russia right now, what do you think the prospects are for evan gi well, i think the good news for evan and his family and his colleagues is that >> we have seen that even though us-russia relations are in a low point, even though there's a war going on, these deals can get done and they operate somewhat on a separate track, largely in private for good reason so there is a pattern and a history of these deals getting done even under these crazy circumstances where these two countries otherwise don't really talk to each other. the bad news is that it's going to likely take a while beca