As Alexei Navalny was buried, the wife of Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was in London to challenge foreign secretary David Cameron.

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    On Friday, images of Navalny’s body in an open casket were beamed around the world, but if these scenes had brought home to Evgenia Kara-Murza the risk to her husband and her family, she wasn’t showing it.

    It’s a fact that Bill Browder, an American businessman turned activist calls “utterly shameful”, not least because Vladimir Kara-Murza is a British citizen.

    Since Navalny’s death, he’s the most high-profile politician imprisoned in Russia but he spent his teenage years in Britain after his mother married an Englishman, studying at Cambridge University before returning to Moscow.

    Browder became close to Kara-Murza when they travelled around the world together successfully advocating for western governments to sanction Russian businessmen and politicians via “Magnitsky Acts”.

    Last week, Maria Pevchikh, the chair of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, spoke publicly about the diplomatic efforts to free him as part of a prisoner swap.

    While her husband’s bravery has shown the world what Putin’s regime is really like, with what she calls its Stalinist repression of political dissent, the west is still failing to understand Russia’s threat to its own security.


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