PORTRAIT – One of Putin’s last active opponents in Russia was charged Thursday with the crime of “high treason”. Imprisoned since April, he is sometimes nicknamed “opponent no. 2” after Alexeï Navalny.
He was one of the last well-known opponents to dare to return regularly to Russia to publicly promote a “post-Putindemocratic, far from the United States where he lives with his wife and three children. Arrested last April, Vladimir Kara-Murza could be sentenced for “high treason“, announced Thursday his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov to the Russian Press Agency (Tass).
This former journalist was close to Boris Nemstov, leader of the anti-Putin opposition, assassinated in Moscow in 2015 in troubled circumstances. Along with his mentor, Kara-Murza had played a leading role in the passage in 2012 of the Magnistki laws in the United States, which individually punish corrupt Russian oligarchs and officials. Since then, he has campaigned in many Western countries for the adoption of similar provisions.
Close to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch who became an opponent of Vladimir Putin, he was for a time coordinator of “Open Russia», an anti-Putin society…
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