Evgenia Kara-Murza on her husband's arrest in Russia and their fight against Putin's "propaganda machine"
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician and Washington Post contributing columnist, has been detained since April. His wife Evgenia is advocating for Vladimir and other activists and journalists who have been swept up amid Russia's crackdown on dissent. She tells Brian Stelter that "Russia can be different" and "we need to make it harder for those who would try to be silent about it."
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| 0:00.0 | Right now, Yavgenia Karammerza is living a nightmare. |
| 0:07.1 | Her husband is behind bars in Russia, charged with spreading false information amid Russia's |
| 0:13.5 | invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:16.0 | But he is finding ways to speak out, by sending notes out of jail through his lawyer, the |
| 0:21.6 | Washington Post just published his latest one. |
| 0:25.5 | And she is finding ways to speak out as well, on his behalf. |
| 0:30.2 | She's doing it right here. |
| 0:33.0 | So what does she want the world to know? |
| 0:35.7 | That's one of the questions for this week's podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | So let's cue the music. |
| 0:40.8 | Pine Brian Stelter and this weekly Reliable Sources podcast is our chance to go more in-depth |
| 0:46.6 | talking with media leaders and newsmakers, exploring how the media world works and doesn't |
| 0:53.0 | work. |
| 0:54.2 | Russia's invasion of Ukraine has put a spotlight on press freedoms and how fragile they are, |
| 1:00.7 | as Russia has stamped out independent media and has criminalized some reporting. |
| 1:07.6 | On April 11th, the prominent Kremlin critic and Russian opposition leader Vladimir Karammerza |
| 1:14.0 | was arrested. |
| 1:15.6 | The arrest came just hours after CNN aired an interview with him. |
| 1:20.7 | In the interview, he called Vladimir Putin's government a regime of murderers. |
| 1:26.0 | Karammerza has used many platforms to speak out against the Kremlin. |
| 1:31.2 | He has been a prominent figure and a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. |
| 1:37.5 | That's one of the many hats that he has been wearing over the years. |
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