Stephen Rademaker, who is representing Kara-Murza in his lawsuit, told RFE/RL that around 275 pages were still being withheld for consultation with other agencies, while 10 had been withheld on grounds of national security. It s possible that the national-security rationale for withholding them is embarrassment over an inability to determine what agent was used to poison Vladimir, Rademaker said in an e-mail. But given the enormous technical capabilities of the U.S. government, we think it s more likely that they did reach some conclusions about the agent used to poison him.
Who Is Vladimir Kara-Murza
Kara-Murza, 39, is a veteran politician who has been active in Russian liberal opposition parties and movements since President Vladimir Putin s rise 20 years ago. The son of a prominent journalist, also named Vladimir, who died in 2019, the younger Kara-Murza was a television correspondent in Washington for several years and later worked on political projects launched by forme
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The vaccination was held during a news conference at the hospital, with Gov. Ron DeSantis looking on.
“Today was really a historic day,” he said.
Earlier Monday, DeSantis and others watched as a FedEx truck pulled up to the hospital with the Pfizer vaccine, which was just approved by the FDA for emergency use last week. The governor signed for the shipment and watched as the vaccines were placed in a deep freeze storage unit, at a temperature of minus 79 degrees. The hospital received 3,900 vials Monday. Each vial has five doses.
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“This is 20,000 doses of hope,” said John Couris, president and chief executive officer, Tampa General Hospital.