Putin critic who survived gulag reveals one memory that plays in his head

Putin critic who survived gulag reveals one memory that plays in his head

Vladimir Kara-Murza, the recently freed Russian opposition politician (Picture: AP) Sitting in the lobby of a central London hotel, Vladimir Kara-Murza is in a valiant mood. It’s been six months since he was released from the IK-6 colony in Omsk, Siberia, a maximum security prison roughly 2,800 miles away. The 43-year-old was locked up for two-and-a-half years, where he was, according to Amnesty International, ‘repeatedly subjected to arbitrary …

Putin critic who survived gulag reveals one memory that keeps playing in his head

Vladimir Kara-Murza, the recently freed Russian opposition politician (Picture: AP) Sitting in the lobby of a central London hotel, Vladimir Kara-Murza is in a valiant mood. It’s been six months since he was released from the IK-6 colony in Omsk, Siberia, a maximum security prison roughly 2,800 miles away. The 43-year-old was locked up for two-and-a-half years, where he was, according to Amnesty International, ‘repeatedly subjected to arbitrary …