When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week, one in particular stood out.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Russian opposition figure and human rights activist was awarded the Pulitzer for commentary.
Vladimir is no ordinary Washington Post columnist. His columns for Post, each of them scathing critiques of Vladimir Putin’s autocratic regime, were all written from a Siberian prison cell. Arrested in April 2022, Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for treason, stemming from his persistent and vocal opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Evgenia Kara-Murza, advocacy director at the Free Russia Foundation and the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, and human rights lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, who is Vladimir Kara-Murza’s defense attorney.
Enjoy…
SHOW NOTES
The audio clips opening the podcast and the second segment came from Vladimir Kara-Mura’s speech to the Arizona state legislature on March 15, 2022. You can watch the speech here.
Vladimir Kara-Murza’s website advocating for political prisoners in Russia can be accessed here. You can donate to the 30 October Foundation to help the families of political prisoners in Russia here.
You can learn about and help Russian political prisoners by visiting the OVD-Info website here.And you can access all the outstanding work and programs of the Free Russia Foundationhere.