The 43-year-old civilian rights fencer is considered the most prominent Russian oppositionist who remains alive. He is known as an opponent of the aggression against Ukraine and a ruthless critic of the Putin regime. He was poisoned twice (in 2015 and 2017), surely by the service. He received the award for the column, which he published in the paper "Washington Post" from January to October 2023. He sent them from behind bars. In April 2022, Kara-Murza was arrested and a year later sentenced to 25 years of maximum safety penal colony and a fine of 700,000 rubles for alleged treason, spreading false information about the Russian army, and cooperating with a "unwanted organization". This is 1 of the most draconian sentences against political activity in Putinian Russia.
He was held in Siberia
Currently, the oppositionist is held in a nightmare single cell of the IK-7 penal colony in the Omsk region of Siberia. all day from the wake of 5:00 a.m. to the lights out at 9:00 p.m., he is tormented by the regime's propaganda, broadcast by radio. The cell has an area of 6 square meters. Last March, politics was diagnosed with polyneuropathy of the lower limbs, a illness on the list of ailments that prevent the patient from being kept in prison. Of course, the Putinov officers didn't care.
As the “Washington Post” wrote, Kara-Murza sent comments, perfectly aware that he could provoke the anger of the prison authorities. This perseverance is another proof of his extraordinary courage. "Kara-Murza has always been an insightful and passionate writer, requiring only minimal editor intervention. However, in these columns he did something extraordinary. Working almost entirely without library support and access to external media, he uses his broad cognition of Russia's past and policy to make comments of exceptional strength. The only advantage of captivity, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted, is the deficiency of distractions, and the prison writing of Kara-Murzy achieves extraordinary clarity," the paper points out. He adds that the winner tells the powerful and insufficiently known past of many Russians who, like him, paid a advanced price for opposing the war in Ukraine.
The planet cannot forget him.
Kara-Murza could not comment on his prize, his wife Evgeny, who besides conducted opposition activities, spoke for it. She thanked the Washington Post for making “the voice of Vladimir heard” and his imagination was not forgotten. A well-known American-British activist in the fight against corruption Bill Browder wrote on the net portal X (old Twitter) that the Pulitzer Prize means a large aid in keeping the activist at the centre of attention sentenced to 25 years in prison for calling Putin a murderer.
Vladimir Kara-Murza was a friend and close associate of opposition politician Boris Niemtsov, who in February 2015 died from the killer's bullets in front of the Kremlin walls. In February 2024, a leading enemy of Putin Alexey Navalny died in the Arctic penal colony. Kara-Murza claims that the Russian dictator is liable for these deaths. any fear that since the strategy is so cruel and vindictive, the brave Pulitzer conqueror will not live long either.
More crucial than Putin's 5th word inauguration was Vladimir Kara-Murza's Pulitzer. pic.twitter.com/y36OJvL9e2
— Rachel Denber (@Rachel_Denber) May 7, 2024
