Even after the second attack, Kara-Mursa continued his work in Russia.
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Berlin His mentor gave him a sentence to take with him. “Do what you have to do – come what may.” When the Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Mursa is asked why he is taking such a risk with his work, he sometimes quotes this sentence.
Nothing is more risky in today’s Russia than defying the Kremlin. A year ago, Kara-Mursa, one of Putin’s most well-known opponents, was arrested in Moscow. A court in Moscow has now sentenced Kara-Mursa to 25 years in prison. He was accused of high treason and disparagement of the Russian military on Monday. Kara-Mursa has described the allegations against him as politically motivated. He compared the legal proceedings against him to show trials during the Stalin dictatorship.
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