# Conversation and Q&A with Vladimir Kara-Murza

A conversation and audience Q&A with Russian opposition politician and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, in collaboration with OxfordSpeaks.

Canonical URL: https://onrs.org/events/conversation-and-qa-with-vladimir-kara-murza/

## Details

- Type: discussion
- Date: Monday, 9 November 2026
- Time: 18:00 - 19:30
- Start (ISO 8601): 2026-11-09T18:00:00.000+00:00
- End (ISO 8601): 2026-11-09T19:30:00.000+00:00
- Date precision: datetime
- Time zone: Europe/London
- Venue: New College
- Address: New College, Oxford OX1 3BN
- Map: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=51.7548111%2C-1.2506286
- Price: Free
- Currency: GBP
- Ticket mode: rsvp
- Phase: upcoming
- Status: registration
- Source ticket status: registration
- Last updated: 2026-11-04T01:47:00.000Z
- Assessed at: 2026-11-04T02:51:46.762Z
- People: Vladimir Kara-Murza
- Partners: OxfordSpeaks
- Tags: discussion, politics, journalism

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Oxford New Russian Society, in collaboration with [**OxfordSpeaks**](https://www.oxford-speaks.com/), welcomes Vladimir Kara-Murza for a conversation and audience Q&A.

## About the speaker

Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian opposition politician, journalist, historian and pro-democracy campaigner. After speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was arrested in April 2022 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released in an international prisoner exchange in August 2024. His columns for The Washington Post, written from prison, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

He serves as vice-president of the Free Russia Foundation and continues to campaign for democracy and human rights in Russia.

## Attending

- Monday 9 November 2026, 6–7:30 pm (UK time).

- New College, Oxford OX1 3BN.

- Free admission; advance registration through Eventbrite.

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Artwork and speaker portrait based on a photograph by [Lauri Heikkinen / Finnish Government](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_opposition_leader_Vladimir_Kara-Murza_in_Helsinki_6_September_2024_(cropped).jpg), [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). The source photograph was cropped; the event artwork is a stylised cobalt-and-paper collage created for ONRS.