An outspoken Putin critic was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony by a Moscow court on Monday, after being found guilty of treason and other offenses he denies committing. It is the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three, is an opposition politician who holds Russian and British passports. He has criticized for years President Vladimir Putin and has called on Western governments to impose sanctions on Russian and Russian individuals for purported human rights violations.
State prosecutors, who requested a 25-year term, accused Kara-Murza of treason, among other offenses, and of discrediting the Russian military after spreading “knowingly false information” about its conduct in what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine….