When Russia invades Ukraine, a Russian opposition figure returns to Moscow to lead the struggle for a democratic, peaceful future, despite two poisonings that nearly took his life. Find out how Vladimir Kara-Murza is standing up to a dictator and facing the longest prison term for activism in Putin's Russia-- a virtual death sentence.

This podcast is produced and hosted by international human rights lawyer Yonah Diamond from the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. And this episode features Vladimir Kara-Murza, his mother Elena Gordon, his wife Evgenia Kara-Murza, New York Times best-selling author Bill Browder, long-time counsel to political prisoners and former Justice Minister of Canada Irwin Cotler, and Washington Post Editor David Hoffman.

How has the Putin regime exploited its war of aggression in Ukraine to increase its grip on power and control at home? 

This episode is about its fateful shift from an authoritarian to a totalitarian system, taking you behind the closed doors of Vladimir Kara-Murza’s sham trial to uncover the lengths the regime will go to turn a peaceful opposition and anti-war activist into the gravest "enemy of the state." 

The "Trial" features interviews with Vladimir himself in 2020, Evgenia Kara-Murza, his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, fellow activist and subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, Anastasia Shevchenko, and President of the Free Russia Foundation, Natalia Arno.