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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Apr 23, 2022, 01:18 AM Apr 2022

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 nation’s 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 Russia’s parliament just after the country’s 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.

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Kara-Murza, Post contributor, charged in Russia for 'false' information (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2022 OP
Kara-Murza was a fool for going back there. I hope he survives. OnDoutside Apr 2022 #1
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