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Jan 2023
24m 33s

Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralise...

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to the Russian opposition activist Evgenia Kara-Murza, whose husband Vladimir, a prominent opponent of Vladimir Putin, is in prison in Russia having survived two apparent poisonings in recent years. Has Putin’s repression effectively neutralised meaningful opposition?

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