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Pjotr Sauer

Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza accused of ‘high treason’

Vladimir Kara-Murza pictured in 2017
Vladimir Kara-Murza pictured in 2017. The charges allege ‘longtime cooperation with a Nato state’. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been imprisoned in Moscow since April, is being investigated for “high treason”, as the authorities step up their case against him for his criticism of the war in Ukraine.

The latest charges against Kara-Murza, a veteran critic of President Vladimir Putin, stem from allegations of “longtime cooperation with a Nato state”, according to the Russian state news agency Tass.

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