'Putin Is a Murderer': Russian Opposition Figure Vladimir Kara-Murza • FRANCE 24 English

Dec 11, 2025 | In an interview with FRANCE 24, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who survived two suspected poisoning attempts and spent two and a half years in jail before being released in a 2024 prisoner swap, said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "not only a dictator" but "also a murderer in a very direct and literal sense of this term". He accused Putin of ordering the assassinations of fellow opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny.

2025 or 1938? Vladimir Kara-Murza Warns Trump Repeating Pre-WWII Mistakes by Appeasing Putin

Aug 17, 2025 | Viewers of Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska this week would be reasonable to wonder whether they had traveled back to 1938, says Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza. "If there is one clear lesson from history, it is that you cannot achieve peace by appeasing an aggressor," Kara-Murza says. Trump "has relinquished the title of the leader of the free world” and that “this collective leadership is now being passed to Europe."

The Putin Files: Vladimir Kara-Murza

Oct 26, 2017 • Vladimir Kara-Murza’s candid, full interview on Putin and allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

Kremlin Critic Kara-Murza Reportedly Arrested In Russia

Apr 12, 2022 • Rachel Maddow revisits the years of advocacy by Vladimir Kara-Murza for democracy and against corruption in Russia, making him a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin and a target of his ire, and now, reportedly, the subject of detention in Russia.

Prominenter Putin-Kritiker in Moskau festgenommen: In Moskau ist der prominente Putin-Kritiker Kara-Mursa festgenommen worden. Der amerikanische Außenminister Blinken forderte seine unverzügliche Freilassung. »