On Monday 10 October, at the opening of its autumn plenary session, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe awarded its 10th Václav Havel Human Rights Prize to Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Russian opposition leader and co-founder of the Russian Anti-War Committee established to oppose Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
In the absence of her husband, who has been imprisoned since last April, his wife Yevgeniya read out a statement in which the winner dedicated his victory to the...