Prominent Putin critic hospitalized after sudden organ failure: report
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics is in the hospital after suffering sudden organ failure, the BBC reports.
Opposition activist and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza is on life support in a medically induced coma, his wife said. She said the “clinical picture” was identical to that of an incident in 2015, when Kara-Murza almost died from sudden kidney failure.
At the time, tests found that the kidney failure had been caused by a poisonous substance, though it was unclear if Kara-Murza was intentionally poisoned or if it was an accident.
"The reason is unclear like last time. He's been active and healthy [recently]," his wife, Evgenia Kara-Murza, told the BBC.
Some are concerned that the Kremlin critic may have been deliberately poisoned.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a coordinator for the pro-democracy group Open Russia, was a close associate of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015. At the time, Nemtsov was allegedly working on a report detailing the Kremlin’s role in supplying weapons to Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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