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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.
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.
In the U.S., Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) called Kara-Murza's hospitalization a "test for the Trump administration," and urged President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to speak out on the issue.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was more direct in alleging the Kremlin's role in Kara-Murza's hospitalization, echoing Cardin's call for the Trump administration to address the matter.
"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," he said in a statement.
http://thehill.com/policy/internati...hospitalized-with-sudden-organ-failure-report
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.
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.
In the U.S., Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) called Kara-Murza's hospitalization a "test for the Trump administration," and urged President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to speak out on the issue.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was more direct in alleging the Kremlin's role in Kara-Murza's hospitalization, echoing Cardin's call for the Trump administration to address the matter.
"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," he said in a statement.
http://thehill.com/policy/internati...hospitalized-with-sudden-organ-failure-report
