WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The wife of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza said on Monday that the 25-year prison sentence a Russian court handed him was recognition of the effectiveness of his work and showed that authorities fear him.
Evgenia Kara-Murza spoke at a Washington Post event about the sentence on charges of treason and other offenses Kara-Murza denies committing. State prosecutors also accused him of discrediting the Russian military after spreading “knowingly false information” about its conduct in what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.
“I understand that this sentence is the high recognition of the effectiveness of Vladimir’s work,” she said at the event that was streamed online, alongside an attorney for her husband. “He has proven time and again that he would not back down, that he would not abandon his fight, that he would not betray his country and betray his ideals, that he would…
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