A Defender of His Country

In May 2015, Vladimir Kara-Murza was poisoned and fell into a coma. The doctors told his wife he had just a 5 percent chance of surviving. He survived. Almost two years later, in February 2017, Kara-Murza was again poisoned. Again, they told his wife he had just a 5 percent chance of survival. Once more, he survived.

“I’m very happy, and very grateful, to be sitting here with you,” he tells me, in a Washington, D.C., restaurant. “Same here,” I respond.