Vladimir V. Kara-Murza
| Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza | |
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| Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза | |
Kara-Murza in 2007
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| Vice Chairman, Open Russia | |
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Assumed office 12 November 2016 |
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| Deputy Leader, People's Freedom Party | |
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In office 05 July 2015 – 17 December 2016 |
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| Leader | Mikhail Kasyanov |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 September 1981 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party |
Union of Right Forces (2001–2008) People's Freedom Party (2012-2016) |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Religion | Russian Orthodox |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Кара́-Мурза́, born 7 September 1981) is a Russian opposition politician. He serves as vice chairman of Open Russia, a NGO founded by Russian businessman and former political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. Kara-Murza holds an M.A. in history from Cambridge University.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza was born in Moscow on 7 September 1981. He is the son of Russian journalist and television host Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza, an outspoken critic of Leonid Brezhnev and a supporter of reforms under Boris Yeltsin. His father is a great-grandson of Latvian revolutionary Voldemārs Bissenieks (1884–1938), and great-grand-nephew of Latvia's first Ambassador to Great Britain, Georgs Bissenieks (1885-1941), both of whom were shot by the NKVD. The Latvian agronomist and publisher Jānis Bissenieks (1864-1923) was their older brother.
He is also related to Sergey Kara-Murza (born 1939), a Soviet/Russian historian, chemist and philosopher. They are members of the Kara-Murza family, descendants of a Tatar aristocrat who settled in Moscow and converted to Christianity in the 15th century AD. (The name in translation means "Black Lord".)
Kara-Murza earned a B.A. and an M.A. degree in history at Cambridge University. He and his wife, Yevgenia, have three children.
Kara-Murza became a journalist at the age of 16. He worked as London correspondent for a succession of Russian media outlets: the newspapers Novye Izvestia (1997-2000) and Kommersant (September 2000 to June 2003) and the radio station Ekho Moskvy from September 2001 to June 2003. Kara-Murza then briefly became foreign affairs correspondent of Kommersant (July 2003 to April 2004) and Washington correspondent for the BBC (December 2004 to December 2005). In 2002 he was editor-in-chief of the London-based financial publication Russian Investment Review. In April 2004 he took over as the Washington bureau chief of the RTVi television network, a post he held for the next nine years. On 1 September 2012 he was dismissed from this job.
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