Kara-Murza Vladimir Vladimirovich

In Moscow in April 2022, politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was detained. He was accused of treason, spreading "fakes about the Russian army" and participating in the "activities of an undesirable organization. The reason for the criminal prosecution was the politician's speech in the Arizona House of Representatives (USA). In his speech, Kara-Murza condemned the war. The evidence in the case of "participation in the activities of an undesirable organization" was the organization of the conference "Political prisoners in Russia in 2021: practices of repression, methods of protection, international solidarity. The reason for the "treason" charge was the politician's speech at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon in October 2021, participation in the award ceremony of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee to historian Yuri Dmitriev in Oslo and a speech there, as well as participation in hearings of the US Helsinki Commission via video link. For the duration of the investigation, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, at the request of the investigation, placed the defendant in a pre-trial detention center. On April 17, 2023, the Moscow City Court found Vladimir Kara-Murza guilty and sentenced him to 25 years in prison in a strict regime colony. On July 31, 2023, the First Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction left the verdict unchanged. August 1, 2024, Vladimir Kara-Murza was released from prison as part of a humanitarian prisoner exchange between the USA and Russia. In October 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Kara-Murza wanted. The article of the Criminal Code for which he is being sought is unknown. On October 13, 2025, the politician was included in the list of Rosfinmonitoring as being involved in a crime of an extremist nature. In October 2025, the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of the 'Anti-War Committee of Russia'. The list of individuals includes Mikhail Kasyanov, Marat Gelman, Leonid Gozman, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Sergey Aleksashenko, Dmitry Gudkov, Sergey Guriev, Boris Zimin, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Yevgeny Kiselyov, Mikhail Kokorich, Yevgeny Kunin, Elena Lukyanova, Yuri Pivorov, Konstantin Chumakov, Anastasia Shevchenko, Viktor Shenderovich, Garry Kasparov, Kirill Martynov, Maxim Reznik, Artur Smolyaninov, and Ekaterina Shulman. The defendants are accused of violent seizure of power, as well as organizing a terrorist community and participating in it. Separately, Mikhail Khodorkovsky is accused of public calls for terrorist activity. According to the investigation, the aforementioned individuals established the "Anti-War Committee of Russia" movement in February 2022 with the aim of forcibly seizing power and changing the constitutional order in the Russian Federation. 30 April 2023 in Berlin, the movement adopted a founding document - the 'Berlin Declaration', which stated the need to liquidate the current authorities in Russia. In October 2025, with the participation of the movement in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a "platform of Russian democratic forces" was created, which Mikhail Khodorkovsky positions to Western countries as a "constituent assembly of the transitional period" and an alternative to the bodies of power of the Russian Federation. Also, according to the investigation, Khodorkovsky and other founders of 'AKR' finance Ukrainian paramilitary units that are recognized as terrorist organizations in Russia and recruit people into them for the subsequent seizure of power in Russia.