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The Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951 Great Issues Lecture welcomes Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Pulitzer-prize winning opposition leader who was released from prison in the historic August 1st prisoner exchange between Russia and NATO allies. With him are Evgenia Kara-Murza, Advocacy Director at the Free Russia Foundation, and Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of Russia’s only independent television station, TV Rain. As Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its third year, Russian opposition leaders and independent media continue to vocally oppose it. Our three visitors will discuss the risks and reasons for doing so, and for the longer fight for democracy in the country.  

The public event is free and open to the public. It will also be livestreamed and recorded. Please click here to visit Eventbrite to reserve your ticket for the in-person public event at Dartmouth, or here to register for the livestream on Zoom.

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Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner. In 2022 Kara-Murza was arrested for his public denunciation of the invasion of Ukraine and of the war crimes committed by Russian forces. He was sentenced to 25 years in jail for high treason. Kara-Murza won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for columns he wrote for the Washington Post while in prison. Earlier this year, he was released as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War. 

Evgenia Kara-Murza is a Russian human rights advocate, pro-democracy campaigner, and public speaker. She worked as a translator and interpreter for Russian human rights organizations before joining her husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, in his pro-democracy and human rights work. She is the recipient of the Courage Under Fire Magnitsky Award, the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Service Medal, and the Lantos Human Rights Prize.

Tikhon Dzyadko is a journalist and the Editor-in-Chief of TV Rain (Dozhd), the only independent TV-station in Russia. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TV Rain has been operating in exile from Amsterdam, with an audience of more than 20 million viewers monthly.

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Co-sponsored by Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth in collaboration with the Department of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies. Made possible by a gift from Mary and Peter R. Dallman ’51.