A Russian court on Monday sentenced one of the Kremlin's most prominent critics, Vladimir Kara-Murza, to 25 years in prison. This marks the longest prison sentence ever handed down against an opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kara-Murza, 41, was charged with treason and spreading false information after he repeatedly criticized Russia's war in Ukraine, in what ABC News noted was "widely viewed as a show trial." Kara-Murza has maintained his innocence from the start, and denied any wr...
A Russian court on Monday sentenced one of the Kremlin's most prominent critics, Vladimir Kara-Murza, to 25 years in prison. This marks the longest prison sentence ever handed down against an opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kara-Murza, 41, was charged with treason and spreading false information after he repeatedly criticized Russia's war in Ukraine, in what ABC News noted was "widely viewed as a show trial." Kara-Murza has maintained his innocence from the start, and denied any wr...
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