Kara-Murza, Post contributor, charged in Russia for 'false' information
A Russian court on Friday charged dissident writer and Washington Post opinions contributor Vladimir Kara-Murza with spreading what it considers false information about the nations military after he called the government a regime of murderers in an interview earlier this month.
Kara-Murza was arrested outside his home in Moscow last week and is serving a 15-day detention for allegedly evading police.
The more serious charge an alleged violation of a vaguely-defined law supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin and enacted by Russias parliament just after the countrys invasion of Ukraine was leveled Friday by a court in Moscow, according to a charging document posted on Facebook by his attorney, Vadim Prokhorov.
Kara-Murza, 40, who lives with his family in Northern Virginia, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/22/kara-murza-charged-russia-speech/
Uh oh Pooty got his feefees hurt.