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Vladimir V. Kara-Murza (born 7 September 1981, Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

) is a Russian journalist, historian and politician. He studied in Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

at the John Lyon School

John Lyon School

The John Lyon School is an academically selective independent boys' school in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex. The school was founded in 1876 by the Governors of Harrow School for the education of local boys, in belated keeping with the wishes of that school's founder, from whom the school takes its...

in Harrow, London

Harrow, London

Harrow is an area in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, United Kingdom. It is a suburban area and is situated 12.2 miles northwest of Charing Cross...

, and graduated with an B.A. and M.A.(Cantab.) in History (First Class) from Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

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(Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the fifth-oldest college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.- Foundation :...

). He is a member of the Federal Political Council of Solidarnost

Solidarnost

Solidarnost is a Russian liberal democratic political movement founded on 13 December 2008 by a number of well-known members of the liberal democratic opposition, including Garry Kasparov, Boris Nemtsov and others from the Yabloko and Union of Right Forces Solidarnost (Солидарность, Russian for...

, the Russian pro-democracy opposition movement led by former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov

Boris Nemtsov

Boris Efimovich Nemtsov is a Russian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 1997 to 1998. He was a co-founder of the Russian political party Union of Right Forces and is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.-Early life:...

and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....

Family

Vladimir Kara-Murza is married, with three children. He is the son of Russian television journalist Vladimir A. Kara-Murza

Vladimir A. Kara-Murza

Vladimir A. Kara-Murza is a Russian journalist and TV host.-References:...

, great-grandson of Latvian revolutionary Voldemārs Bissenieks (1884–1938), great-grand-nephew of Latvia's first Ambassador to Great Britain Georgs Bissenieks (1885-1941), and of Latvian agronomist and publisher Jānis Bissenieks (1864-1923).

Career in the Media

Kara-Murza entered journalism at the age of 16. In 1997–2000 he was the London correspondent of Russia's Novye Izvestia newspaper; in 2000–2003, the London correspondent of Kommersant

Kommersant

Kommersant is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Russia. , the circulation was 131,000.- History :The newspaper was initially published in 1909, and it was closed down following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the introduction of censorship in 1917.In 1989, with the onset of press...

. In 2002 he was editor-in-chief of the London-based financial publication "Russian Investment Review". In 2004 he became the Washington

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

bureau chief of RTVi

RTVi

RTVi is an international Russian-language private television network, with studios based in Moscow, New York and Tel-Aviv, as well as bureaus in Washington DC, Berlin and Kiev, which broadcasts by satellite and cable in Europe, North America, Israel and CIS countries...

television network. Since 2010 he has been writing a weekly blog, "Spotlight on Russia", for World Affairs journal.

"They Chose Freedom"

In 2005 Kara-Murza produced a four-part TV documentary, "They Chose Freedom

They Chose Freedom

They Chose Freedom is a four-part TV documentary on the history of political dissent in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1990s. It was produced in 2005 by Vladimir V...

", dedicated to the history of the Soviet dissident movement. The documentary was based on interviews with prominent Russian dissidents, including Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist....

, Elena Bonner and Sergei Kovalev

Sergei Kovalev

Sergei Kovalev is a Russian human rights activist and politician and a former Soviet dissident and political prisoner.- Early career and arrest :...

. It was first aired in November 2005.

"Reform or Revolution"

In 2011, Kara-Murza published his first book, "Reform or Revolution: The Quest for Responsible Government in the First Russian State Duma", which recounts the unsuccessful attempt by the Constitutional Democratic Party

Constitutional Democratic party

The Constitutional Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Russian Empire. Party members were called Kadets, from the abbreviation K-D of the party name...

to form a government during the short existence of the first Russian Parliament in April–July 1906. The book was launched in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

Political Career

From 2000 until 2003 Kara-Murza served as plenipotentiary representative of Russia's Union of Right Forces

Union of Right Forces

The Union of Right Forces, or SPS , was a Russian democratic opposition party associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the 'Young Reformers' of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, and Yegor Gaidar. Nikita Belykh was the last party's leader...

party in Great Britain and as an adviser to party leader Boris Nemtsov. In the 2003 Russian parliamentary election Kara-Murza contested the Chertanovsky constituency in Moscow as the democratic opposition candidate, with the backing of the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko

Yabloko

The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" (Russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко» Rossiyskaya obyedinyonnaya demokraticheskaya partiya "Yabloko"; is a Russian social...

parties. According to international and domestic monitors, the campaign's coverage in state-controlled media was heavily biased in favour of the pro-government United Russia

United Russia

United Russia is a centrist political party in Russia and the largest party in the country, currently holding 315 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. The party was founded in December 2001, through a merger of the Unity and Fatherland-All Russia parties...

party, which emerged with more than two-thirds of the seats in the new State Duma

State Duma

The State Duma , common abbreviation: Госду́ма ) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. The Duma headquarters is located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to...

. In the Chertanovsky constituency, Kara-Murza received 23,800 votes and came second out of 10 candidates (after United Russia candidate Vladimir Gruzdev).

In May 2007 Kara-Murza initiated the nomination of Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist....

, a writer and prominent Soviet-era dissident, as a candidate in the 2008 Russian presidential election

Russian presidential election, 2008

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and served as the national coordinator of Bukovsky's presidential campaign committee, which included Yuri Ryzhov, Viktor Shenderovich, Andrei Piontkovsky, Alexander Podrabinek, and others. On December 22, 2007 the Russian Central Electoral Commission announced its refusal to register Bukovsky as a candidate.

In December 2007 Kara-Murza was elected to the Federal Political Council of the Union of Right Forces, but left the party in September 2008 in protest at its deal with the Kremlin. He is currently a member of the Federal Political Council of "Solidarnost" (elected in December 2008, re-elected in December 2010), and is responsible for the movement's international relations.

2003 Parliamentary Election Result

Vladimir Gruzdev

Vladimir Sergeyevich Gruzdev is a Russian politician, the governor of Tula Oblast., businessman and explorer.Vladimir Gruzdev was born in 1967 in Bolshevo, Moscow oblast, to a military officer and a teacher...

|align=left|United Russia

United Russia

| align="right" | 149,069
| align="right" | 53.78
|-
|align=left| Vladimir V. Kara-Murza

Vladimir V. Kara-Murza

Vladimir V. Kara-Murza is a Russian journalist, historian and politician. He studied in Great Britain at the John Lyon School in Harrow, London, and graduated with an B.A. and M.A. in History from Cambridge University...

|align=left|Union of Right Forces

Union of Right Forces

, Yabloko

Yabloko

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is the second major political party in the Russian Federation.-History:...

Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia , Liberal'no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii is a political party in Russia. Since its founding in 1991, it has been led by the charismatic and controversial figure Vladimir Zhirinovsky...

| align="right" | 5,784
| align="right" | 2.09
|-
|align=left| Yuri Timofeev
|align=left|Party of Russian Renewal, Russian Party of Life
| align="right" | 4,950
| align="right" | 1.79
|-
|align=left| Vladimir Rebrikov
|align=left|National Patriotic Forces of the Russian Federation
| align="right" | 4,347
| align="right" | 1.57
|-
|align=left| Yegveny Shvets
|align=left|Independent
| align="right" | 4,250
| align="right" | 1.53
|-
|align=left| Maxim Krasikov
|align=left|Independent
| align="right" | 3,350
| align="right" | 1.21
|-
|align=left| Vyacheslav Palashchenko
|align=left|Rus'
| align="right" | 1,449
| align="right" | 0.52
|-
|align=left colspan="2" | Against All Candidates
| align=right| 47,597
|17.17
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