Russia's Kafkaesque Repression

In this episode of Dissidents and Dictators, the Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) International Legal Associate Michelle Gulino speaks with Russian pro-democracy activist and opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza about the rise of government repression in Putin’s Kafkaesque Russia. Under Putin’s rule, Russia has become one of the most repressive countries in the world. Kara-Murza is Vice President of the Free Russia Foundation, an international organization supporting civil society and democratic development in Russia, and he chairs the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom. He is also one of the major champions of the Magnitsky Act, and has been the target of two assassination attempts by Putin’s regime for his outspokenness against the dictatorship. Throughout this conversation, Kara-Murza details the methods and aims of Putin’s repressive apparatus, and how democratic leaders around the world can help support Russian civil society.