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While Living in a Putin Dungeon, Vladimir Kara-Murza Wins a Pulitzer Prize

Reposting my reports on the political dissident — as a lesson in spine stiffening

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Heidi Siegmund Cuda
May 06, 2024
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This main report below was originally published April 11, 2023, before Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and it contains his beautiful words of defiance. The second report — on how we can help political prisoners — was published on April 7, 2024 — a year later.

In my mind I keep hearing the words of Tom Stoppard’s ‘Rosencrantz an…

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