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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Carole Cadwalladr

‘The UK must change its position’: the wife of Briton jailed by Vladimir Putin on taking up her husband’s fight

Evgenia Kara-Murza, wife of the jailed Russian opposition figure and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza
Evgenia Kara-Murza, wife of the jailed Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is serving a 25-year sentence over charges including treason over criticism of the Ukraine offensive. Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer

Hours after Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow, his body brought from a grim Siberian jail, Evgenia Kara-Murza, who is married to another Russian opposition leader serving a 25-year sentence in another grim Siberian jail, is perfectly composed.

On Friday, images of Navalny’s body in an open casket were beamed around the world, but if these scenes had brought home to Evgenia Kara-Murza the risk to her husband and her family, she wasn’t showing it.

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