A courtroom in Moscow on Monday convicted a high Kremlin foe on costs of treason and denigrating the Russian navy and sentenced him to 25 years in jail.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., a outstanding opposition activist who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars since his arrest a yr in the past.
He has rejected the costs in opposition to him as political and likened the judicial proceedings in opposition to him to the present trials in the course of the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
The costs in opposition to Kara-Murza stem from his March 15 speech to the Arizona Home of Representatives wherein he denounced Russia’s navy motion in Ukraine. Investigators added the treason costs whereas he was in custody.
Russia adopted a legislation criminalizing spreading “false data” about its navy shortly after it despatched troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
Authorities have used the legislation to stifle criticism of what the Kremlin calls “a particular navy operation.”