THE EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED ON TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2025
Join us for the sixth installment of our new speaker series "Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm — Conversations With Yevgenia Albats" to hear Vladimir Kara-Murza speak with our eminent host about his experience in the Russian gulag.
A Cambridge University-trained historian, Vladimir Kara-Murza came to Russian political activism as a protégé of the late Boris Nemtsov. Kara-Murza has become known as a promoter of the Magnitsky Act, aimed at punishing corrupt Russian judges, prosecutors, and police. In April 2022, he was arrested in Moscow; a year later, in April 2023, he was sentenced on trumped-up charges to 25 years in a Russian maximum-security prison. He spent 11 months in solitary confinement in Siberian penal colonies and never expected to get out alive. By “pure miracle” and great effort on the part of American and German diplomats, he was released from prison in a major prisoner swap on Aug. 1, 2024, and deported to Germany. A long-time contributing columnist with The Washington Post, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary while still in prison. Vladimir Kara-Murza comes to Harvard to tell his story.
Sponsorship
Co-sponsored by the Russia Matters project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Accessibility
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