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In response to the death of Russian democratic opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died in Russian custody while unjustly incarcerated, Freedom House joins partners in requesting the Biden Administration to accelerate efforts to free imprisoned Russian democracy advocate, Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is included below and can be read here.
In 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia on bogus charges for his criticism of Putin's repressive government and the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.
The US and its allies need a strategy for countering the malign influence of authoritarian rivals in the Western Hemisphere.
Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated on Thursday that he would be willing to consider releasing detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in exchange for the freedom of a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for assassinating a man in Germany. Putin, speaking to former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in an interview broadcast on…
The questionable oil and economic sanctions levied on the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela by former President Donald Trump’s administration, have continued to cause unintended consequences to American interests and its allies in the region, but most importantly, to the Venezuelan people, argued FIU professor Eduardo Gamarra, during his participation at Florida International University’s (FIU) Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs “Effectiveness of Sanctions” panel discussion last Friday.