Kramer writes: "Mr. Kara-Murza had ingested a poison, doctors told him after he emerged from a weeklong coma, though they could find no identifiable trace of it. While he survived, few others in his position have proved as lucky. He said he was certain he had been the target of a security service poisoning."
The funeral of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a Putin opponent who died of radioactive polonium-210 poisoning in London in 2006. (photo: Cathal McNaughton)
More of Kremlin's Opponents Are Ending Up Dead
23 August 16
rom a certain perspective, certainly the Kremlin’s, Vladimir Kara-Murza’s behavior in Washington could be seen as treasonous, a brazen betrayal of his homeland.
In a series of public meetings on Capitol Hill, Mr. Kara-Murza, a leader in the Russian opposition, urged American lawmakers to expand economic sanctions against the Russian government under a law known as the Magnitsky Act. That would hasten political change in Russia, he argued.
Back in Moscow a month later, in May 2015, the changes Mr. Kara-Murza detected were going on in his own body. Midway through a meeting with fellow dissidents, beads of sweat inexplicably dotted his forehead. His stomach churned.
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