The Real Life GULAG

Join us for the sixth installment of our new speaker series "Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm — Conversations With Yevgenia Albats" to hear Vladimir Kara-Murza speak with our eminent host about his experience of the Russian Gulag.

A Cambridge University-trained historian, Vladimir Kara-Murza, came to Russian political activism as a protégé of the late Boris Nemtsov. Kara-Murza has become known as a promoter of the Magnitsky Act aimed at punishing the corrupted Russian judges, prosecutors, and policemen. In April 2022, he was arrested in Moscow; a year later, in April of 2023, he was sentenced on trump-up charges to 25 years in the Russian maximum-security Pr*son. He spent eleven months in solitary confinement in the Siberian Pr*son and never expected himself to get out alive. By pure miracle and lots of efforts on the side of American and German diplomats, he was released from Pr*son on the biggest prisoners' swamp ever on August 1, 2024, and deported to Germany. A long-time contributing columnist with the Washington Post, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary while still in Pr*son. Vladimir Kara-Murza comes to Harvard to tell his story.

These are but some of the topics to be discussed in what promises to be an in-depth, informative conversation. Please explore the other planned talks in the series in our Events listing.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, United States