FALTER Radio & Kreisky Forum Talks: Bis zum Tod - wie der Kreml politische Gegner peinigt

COURAGE! Part 2


Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with Evgenia
Kara-Murza


HOW TO FIGHT PUTIN


Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia’s president Vladimir
Putin started a full-fledged war against neighboring Ukraine.
Since then, Russia has occupied 11% of Ukrainian territory,
killed or severely wounded 130.000 Ukrainian soldiers and – all
according to Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Centre – about 10.000
Ukrainian civilians have died in the war. Putin’s regime is also
responsible for the death or severe injury of 200.000 Russian
soldiers in that war. While the war rages on, Russian opposition
politicians and critical journalists are not allowed to call it a
war or to criticize it in any way. Who does gets sentenced to
long prison sentences in a penal colony.


Like Vladimir Kara-Murza. The Russian-British activist was
arrested in April 2022 for denouncing the Russian invasion of
Ukraine. In April 2023 he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for
“high treason”. His wife Evgenia Kara-Murza is leading a campaign
for his release. In her talk she will explain under which inhuman
conditions her husband is held. The treatment of political
prisoners in Russia – next to Kara-Murza also Alexej Navalny,
Ilya Yashin and many others – is deteriorating in the runup to
the Russian presidential elections on March 15-17 are coming:
“These elections are not legitimate”, says Evgenia Kara-Murza.


 Evgenia Kara-Murza is a Russian-American
Human Rights Activist and wife of political prisoner Vladimir
Kara-Murza. She is also a translator and the Advocacy Director at
Free Russia Foundation.


Tessa Szyszkowitz, is an Austrian journalist and
author. She writes for Austrian and German publications such as
Falter Tagesspiegel, she is also a Distinguished Fellow of the
Royal United Services Institute in London.





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