Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza (russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Кара́-Мурза́; 24 October 1959 – 28 July 2019) was a Russian journalist and TV host.
Biography
Kara-Murza graduated from the history faculty of
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
in 1981; while at the university, he was nearly expelled for defacing portraits of
Soviet
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leader
Leonid Brezhnev
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. He taught history at school. In the 1980s, he refused state employment, citing his opposition to the Soviet regime.
In 1992, with the onset of President
Boris Yeltsin
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's democratic reforms, he joined the weekly ''Itogi'' programme on
Channel One of Russian TV—first as editor, then as correspondent. In 1993, along with his colleagues, joined the newly created
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, Russia's first independent television channel founded by
Vladimir Gusinsky
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky (russian: Владимир Александрович Гусинский, ; born 6 October 1952) is a Russian media tycoon. He founded the Media-Most holding company that included the NTV free-to-air channel, t ...
. In April 1995, Kara-Murza became the anchor of NTV's news programme ''Today at Midnight''.
In April 2001, in protest at the seizure of NTV by the Russian government, Kara-Murza, along with other NTV journalists (
Yevgeny Kiselyov
Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kiselyov (russian: Евгений Алексеевич Киселёв, uk, Євген Олексійович Кисельов; born 15 June 1956) is a Russian television journalist. As the host of the NTV weekly news show ''I ...
,
Viktor Shenderovich
Viktor Anatolyevich Shenderovich (russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Шендеро́вич; born August 15, 1958) is a Russian satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host.
Biography
Shenderovich was born in Moscow into a family of ...
,
Mikhail Osokin,
Svetlana Sorokina
Svetlana Innokentyevna Sorokina (russian: Светла́на Инноке́нтьевна Соро́кина; née Sarykova; born January 15, 1957, Pushkin) is a Russian journalist, member of the , teacher at the Higher School of Economics, and a ...
), went to
TV-6 channel, where he became anchor of the evening news programme ''Grani'' ("Angles" or "Points of View"). When TV6 was closed down by the government in January 2002, its journalists contested the competition for the frequency, and won, returning in June 2002 as
TVS channel. Kara-Murza continued his ''Grani'' programme, which enjoyed some of the highest viewer ratings on Russian television.
In June 2003,
TVS, Russia's last independent television channel, was removed from the air by order of the Press Ministry. From August 2003, Kara-Murza was the evening news anchor at
RTVi channel.
He was the father of opposition politician
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (russian: Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза; born 7 September 1981) is a Russian political activist, journalist, author, and filmmaker. A protégé of Boris Nemtsov, he serves as v ...
.
Public position
In 2004, he became one of the founders of the opposition
Committee 2008
"Committee 2008: A Free Choice" (russian: Комитет 2008: Свободный выбор; ''Komitet 2008: Svobodnyy vybor'') was an umbrella organization of the Russian democratic opposition, launched on 29 January 2004 and broke up in the spri ...
.
In 2018, he was one of the trustees of
Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky (Russian: Григо́рий Алексе́евич Явли́нский; born 10 April 1952) is a Russian economist and politician. He authored the 500 Days Program, a plan for the transition of the Soviet regime ...
in the
presidential election
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Albania
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Chile
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.
He was one of the critics of the policy of the current authorities and President
Vladimir Putin
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, and in his publications regularly criticized the programs of modern Russian television and their presenters.
Авторы. Кара-Мурза-ст.
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See also
*Solidarnost
United Democratic Movement "Solidarnost" (russian: Объединённое демократическое движение «Солидарность»; ОДД «Солидарность»; ''Obyedinonnoye demokraticheskoye dvizheniye «Solidarno ...
References
External links
Владимир Кара-Мурза: «Главный наш враг не Путин, а отсутствие свободного выбора»
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1959 births
2019 deaths
Russian journalists
Russian television personalities
Moscow State University alumni
Echo of Moscow radio presenters
Solidarnost politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Russian people of Tatar descent
Russian columnists