Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian Imprisonment and Fighting for Democracy
Anne Applebaum and Vladimir Kara-Murza at the Pulitzer Prize ceremony (photograph by David Dini)
Vladimir Kara-Murza won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for opinion columns published in The Washington Post, columns written from solitary confinement in a Siberian prison.
In this episode, Kara-Murza and Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Board member and 2004 General Nonfiction winner for her book, Gulag: A History, discuss his imprisonment, what it was like being released in the largest US-Russia prisoner exchange since the Cold War, and why he believes democracy is inevitable for his homeland.
A transcript to this episode is available here.
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