Vladimir Kara-Mursa was released in a prisoner exchange in August. He fights for other political prisoners who remain in Russian prisons.
Russian Kremlin opponent Vladimir Kara-Mursa and his wife Yevgenija were awarded the Bruno Kreisky Foundation Human Rights Prize in Vienna. Both are fighting for the release of more dissidents from Russian custody. Vladimir Kara-Mursa was released in August after being sentenced to 25 years in prison for political activities during a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West.
For prisoners like the Moscow district councilor Alexei Gorinov and the Siberian journalist Marija Ponomarenko, this is a question of life and death. Both were sentenced to long prison terms for criticizing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
The Kara-Mursas demanded more committed commitment from politicians in the Western world: “When there is a real battle between good and evil, when dictators unite and endanger the survival of democracy around the world, you cannot be neutral,” said Yevgeniya Kara-Mursa the APA news agency. She works for the Free Russia Foundation.
Breakfast bacon and Russian gas
Her husband spoke about the dissident Vladimir Bukowski (1942-2019), who was released in a prisoner exchange in 1976. He wrote in his memoirs: “For many Western politicians, the ability to grill bacon on Soviet gas is more important than human rights.”
Source: Stern
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