The Urgent Plea of Vladimir Kara-Murza's Mother.
In a heart-wrenching interview, Elena Gordon, the mother of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, shares her anguish and fears as her son languishes in a Siberian prison.
I met the soft-spoken Kara-Murza when he appeared on a show I produced for the CBC a few years ago. An excerpt of that interview conducted by Wendy Mesley is linked here. Despite being poisoned twice, Kara-Murza accepted that he may one day be killed by Putin’s regime:
