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. The verdict against him is expected on Monday. He faces 25 years in prison.
His mentor, who kept repeating that phrase to him, was opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. For years, the historian and journalist Kara-Mursa worked as Nemtsov’s advisor, who became his companion and close friend. Together they warned early on about the “danger of Putinism”.
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