Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian politician and former political prisoner. Kara-Murza played a key role in the adoption of Magnitsky sanctions against top Russian officials. For this work he was twice poisoned and left in a coma. In 2022 he was arrested in Moscow for publicly denouncing the invasion of Ukraine. He was sentenced to 25 years for “high treason” and kept in solitary confinement. He was released in 2024 as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War. Kara-Murza is a contributing writer at the Washington Post, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for his columns written from prison.