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Vladimir Kara-Murza

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза, IPA: [kɐˌra mʊrˈza]; born 7 September 1981) is a Russian-British political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker, and former political prisoner. A protégé of murdered Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov, Kara-Murza is vice-chairman of Open Russia, an NGO founded by the exiled Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. He has directed two documentaries, They Chose Freedom and Nemtsov. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Vladimir Kara-Murza is the 611th most popular social activist (down from 561st in 2024), the 2,343rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,141st in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vladimir Kara-Murza ranks 611 out of 840. Before him are Shin Dong-hyuk, Anna Aloys Henga, Iqbal Masih, Martin Luther King III, Dolores Huerta, and Yelizaveta Chaikina. After him are Lida Heymann, Neerja Bhanot, Manal al-Sharif, Robert Emmet, Usha Mehta, and Oleksandra Matviichuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Vladimir Kara-Murza ranks 210. Before him are Saroo Brierley, Barbora Špotáková, Alice Rohrwacher, Jesse Williams, Lee Jin-wook, and Klemen Lavrič. After him are Andrei Kirilenko, Angerfist, Volkan Demirel, Audrey Tang, Antje Traue, and Han Hye-jin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Kara-Murza ranks 2,343 out of 3,761. Before him are Anatoly Lein (1931), Vyacheslav Lemeshev (1952), Grigori Roshal (1899), Ivan Okhlobystin (1966), Boris Gurevich (1931), and Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918). After him are Andrei Kirilenko (1981), Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), Yelena Petushkova (1940), Larissa Volpert (1926), Maria Lvova-Belova (1984), and Lyudmila Andonova (1960).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Vladimir Kara-Murza ranks 38. Before him are Lev Chernyi (1890), Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790), Tatyana Baramzina (1919), Raisa Aronova (1920), Fazu Aliyeva (1932), and Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918). After him are Elizaveta Glinka (1962), Maxim Martsinkevich (1984), Stanislav Markelov (1974), Anna Hutsol (1984), Denis Kapustin (1984), and Nikolay Alexeyev (1977).

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