Foreign Affairs Committee
10 November 2026
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Foreign Affairs Committee Actual start House of Commons
Follow its sittings13:01 - 13:32
Speaker 1
Good afternoon. This is a further session of the Committee's inquiry into Russia and the UK's strategy towards Russia. I should convey the apologies of our chairman, Dame Emily Thornberry, who is at the COP meeting in Turkey today, and so I'm taking her place.
And we have two panels, first of which we're delighted to welcome Vladimir Kara-Murza. Perhaps you would like to introduce yourself.
13:32 - 14:12
Speaker 2
Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. Thank you for the kind invitation to appear before you. It is a true privilege. My name is Vladimir Kara-Murza. I'm a Russian opposition politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner.
For many years, I had the honor of working with Boris Nemtsov, who was the leader of the democratic opposition in Russia and who was assassinated on Vladimir Putin's orders 11 years ago in February of 2015. I previously served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party, an opposition party in Russia. In April of 2022, I was arrested for publicly speaking out against the war in Ukraine, sentenced to 25 years in prison, strict-regime penal colony, for quote, unquote, "high treason."
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