Russia has opened a criminal case against opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza—who previously survived two suspected poisonings in Russia—for spreading “false information,” his lawyer said on Friday, a week after he was sentenced to 15 days in jail after CNN aired an interview with Kara-Murza in which he called the Kremlin a “regime of murderers.”...
Russia has faced a “total blackout,” Kara-Murza told MSNBC, noting that more than 15,000 people have been detained for protesting the war in Ukraine."I have absolutely no doubt that the Putin regime will end over this war in Ukraine,” Kara-Murza toldKara-Murza is the former deputy leader of the People’s Freedom Party, an opposition party founded in the last years of the Soviet Union. An outspokenof Russian President Vladimir Putin, he has spoken to several U.S.