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Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian opposition leader and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin. Alongside his late mentor Boris Nemtsov, he played a key role in persuading U.S. Congress to pass groundbreaking sanctions legislation targeting corrupt Russian officials and human rights abusers.
A Russian court on Monday sentenced journalist, activist and Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison on charges of treason.
The United States should send the Kremlin a clear message that theintegrity of Russia's democratic process will largely determine thedirection of its development and the future of U.S.-Russianrelations.
An MP's bank account had a huge sum deposited there.
Russia now has a Duma that is more nationalist and less democratic.While emerging democracy is often a two-steps-forward,one-step-back proposition, it is in everyone's interest that Russiapursue civic society, free markets, and political liberty. The U.S.and the West should not hesitate to remind Moscow of this.