An unprecedented sentence may suggest that the Kremlin is nervous
. Yan Rachinsky, the chair of Memorial, a human-rights group that was recently outlawed, described the length of the sentence as Stalinist. Mr Kara-Murza himself expressed surprise at how far the trial went beyond the norms of late Soviet dissident trials. “Things like this might have been present in the 1930s, not the 1970s,” he said.
Mr Kara-Murza knew the risks of continuing political activity in Russia, having already survived two suspected poisoning attempts that left him in fragile health. Friends and colleagues say that he also accepted the prospect of arrest. “He said it was a reasonable inference,” said Kirill Rogov, an analyst, who spoke to him in early 2022, just before he returned to Russia. “He sighed and said that if you are a Russian politician, you need to be in Russia at this moment.
Maria Eismont, a human-rights lawyer who represents Mr Kara-Murza, remains in Moscow. In our podcast seriesshe explains the logic of carrying on with her work in a country where security services are above the law. One reason, she said, is that in Russian courts “you can openly say things that are, for a long time, prohibited to say elsewhere”., who went back in January 2021, after he was poisoned by Novichok, a nerve agent.
Vladimir Ashurkov, a London-based associate of Mr Navalny, says he expects “nothing good” to come of any new trial. But he says it is understood that Mr Navalny—like Mr Kara-Murza and other political prisoners—will remain in prison for as long as Mr Putin retains power. “Even now Alexei’s term is nine years, which is over the horizon of visibility that anyone has about contemporary Russia,” says Mr Ashurkov.
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