Russian activist, likely poisoned before, hospitalized again

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Russian activist, likely poisoned before, hospitalized again

MOSCOW -- A private foundation says one of its employees, a prominent Russian opposition activist, has been hospitalized after a sudden illness reminiscent of a poisoning he suffered two years earlier.

Open Russia, run by exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said in a statement on Thursday that Vladimir Kara-Murza was hospitalized earlier in the day after becoming ill.

Kara-Murza, a journalist and a close associate of the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, nearly died when he suffered sudden kidney failure in May 2015.

Continued: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-opposition-activist-vladimir-kara-murza-poisoned-hospitalized/

Statement on Critical Condition of Vladimir Kara-Murza

We are asking for prayers for Vladimir and his wife Evgenia and to the excellent doctors treating him that he can make a full and speedy recovery.

It is a sad day for our country when our first thoughts are that he is facing another politically motivated attack. We hope this isn’t the case and we encourage local police and federal investigators to urgently look into this matter.

We know an atmosphere has been created through repeated propaganda that encourages violence against those who pursue a better way for Russia.  We only hope this hasn’t happened yet again.

http://www.4freerussia.org/statement-on-critical-condition-of-vladimir-kara-murza/

We'll see, I hope he can survive this. One is unsure what to make of it. Dissidents.

[geronl]

Putin is not kind to his political opponents.

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Weekly Standard:

'Stay True to Your Values'
Russian activist critically ill.

3:40 PM, Feb 02, 2017 | By Priscilla M. Jensen

Vladimir Kara-Murza, 35, Russian political activist and journalist, has been hospitalized in Moscow "with symptoms similar to those he had two years ago," sudden kidney failure and related problems, said his wife Evgenia Kara-Murza on Thursday.

In spring 2015 Mr. Kara-Murza was hospitalized for about two months with these symptoms, which were widely attributed to his having been poisoned, though no specific cause was ever named.

Mrs. Kara-Murza told the BBC that her husband is in a medically-induced coma and on life support. "It's the same clinical picture as last time," she said, with an acute onset and rapid deterioration.

Continued: http://www.weeklystandard.com/stay-true-to-your-values/article/2006639

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https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/

Gary Kasparov who was a great chess champion often has some good twitter to keep up with. Interesting comments.  Now political activist in? I'm unsure but he's not in Russia anymore.