# Vladimir Kara-Murza

Владимир Кара-Мурза

Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian opposition politician, journalist, historian and former political prisoner. A close colleague of Boris Nemtsov, he has campaigned for democracy and human rights in Russia and helped secure international Magnitsky sanctions against officials responsible for corruption and human rights abuses. Arrested in Moscow in April 2022 after speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and 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 is a history graduate and Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

[Biography written by ONRS using Freedom House and the Pulitzer Prizes.](https://freedomhouse.org/expert/vladimir-kara-murza)

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## Events at ONRS

- [Conversation and Q&A with Vladimir Kara-Murza](https://onrs.org/events/conversation-and-qa-with-vladimir-kara-murza/) — Monday, 9 November 2026; Upcoming

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