A Washington Post columnist and vocal critic of the Kremlin has been arrested in Moscow, his wife said in a social media post on Monday evening.
“Twice have the Russian authorities tried to kill my husband for advocating for sanctions against thieves and murderers, and now they want to throw him in prison for calling their bloody war a WAR,” Evgenia Kara-Murza said of her husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a columnist at the Post and has appeared on American cable news frequently in recent years, oftentimes criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.
His reported arrest came the same day as an interview he gave to CNN, during which he predicted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the international outrage it has sparked would bring an end to Putin’s rule.
“This regime that is in power today, it is not just autocratic. … It is a regime of murders,” he said on Monday. “It is important to say it out loud. And it is really tragic. I have no other word for this.”
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Vladimir Kara-Murza had accused the Kremlin of poisoning him on two separate occasions before Monday’s reported arrest. He is a longtime confidant of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in 2015, the Post noted, and is a former candidate for the Russian parliament.
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Washington Post columnist, prominent Kremlin critic arrested in Moscow https://t.co/szcPkwwUWI pic.twitter.com/louAFNAx5C
— The Hill (@thehill) April 12, 2022
CNN just released this two hours ago: Vladimir Kara Murza calls Putin regime a 'regime of murderers'. He was arrested in Moscow an hour later. https://t.co/QwXmCGgrcb
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) April 11, 2022
horrible. https://t.co/mkV6RzCFD8
— Eli Lake (@EliLake) April 12, 2022
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