Kara-Murza, Vladimir Alekseevich

Vladimir Kara-Murza was born on October 24, 1959 in Moscow. In 1981, he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University with a degree in “teacher of the history of modern times” ^[8] . Oleg Dobrodeev studied with him on a parallel flow ^[9] , with whom Kara-Murza maintained friendly relations from 1976 to 2001 ^[10] .

He took part in the activities of the art group " Amanita " ^{[11] [12] [13]} .

From 1982 to 1992 he was engaged in private tutoring on history ^{[14] [15] [16]} , worked as a janitor , fireman ^{[17] [18]} .

Media Work

Television

On television since 1992 ^[19] .

In 1992-1993 , he was a senior editor, then a correspondent for Yevgeny Kiselyov ’s Itogi weekly program at the Ostankino State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company ^{[20] [21]} (now called Channel One ). He made materials on historical topics there: on the South Kuril Islands and events in North Ossetia ^[22] . In September 1993 ^[23], together with Kiselev and other Itogi journalists, he transferred to Russia's first private national television company NTV ^[24] , founded in the same year by Vladimir Gusinsky .

In 1993-1995 , he was a correspondent for the information service of the NTV television company, making stories for the programs "Today" ^[25] and "Itogi" ^[26] . From April 28, 1995 ^[27] to April 12, 2001, he was the author and presenter of the informational and analytical program “ Today at Midnight ” on the NTV channel ^{[28] [29]} , in 1996 he was awarded the Golden Pen Award of the Russian Journalists Union for his professional activities Of Russia ” ^[30] . From March 2000 to January 2002, he was also the author and presenter of the weekly historical program Witness of the Century, which was originally aired on NTV ^{[31] [32]} , then on TV-6 ^[33] .

During the conflict between the owner of the NTV television company Gusinsky and its main creditor Gazprom , Vladimir Kara-Murza came to the editorial office of the television channel on the 8th floor of the Ostankino television center on the night of April 14, 2001 , where he entered into a tough polemic with representatives of Gazprom ": Dobrodeev , Yordan and Kulistikov ^[34] . On the same day, together with a group of leading NTV journalists, he wrote a letter of resignation from the channel and went to the TNT channel , from where he later transferred to the staff of Boris Berezovsky TV channel “ TV-6 ” ^[35] .

From April 2001 to January 2002, he was the author and presenter of the information and analytical programs Today at Midnight on TNT , Put Out the Light ^[36] and Today on TV-6 ^[37] (from September 3, 2001 the name of the program was changed to “Facets”) on TNT and TV-6 channels ^{[38] [39]} . The last broadcast on TV-6 was held at 11:00 p.m. on January 21, 2002, an hour before the broadcasting of the television company was turned off by order of the bailiffs ^[40] . After the closure of “TV-6”, together with other journalists, he joined the staff of the newly created TVS channel, which won the broadcast contest in March 2002 and began broadcasting on the “sixth button” on June 1, 2002. From June 2002 to June 2003 ^[41] Vladimir Kara-Murza was the host of the Grani, Place of Printing ^[42] and Dim the Light programs on TVS. The last broadcast on TVS was on June 19, 2003 ^[43] . TVS was disconnected from the air by order of the Ministry of Press of the Russian Federation on June 22, 2003 ^[44] .

From August 11, 2003 ^{[45] [46]} through the summer of 2008 ^{[47] he} was the host of the “Now in Russia” information program on RTVi .

He appeared twice in the programs of publicly available television channels as a guest: in the television game One Hundred to One ( Russia , September 11, 2004, as part of the Echo of Moscow team) ^[8] and talk show Babi Riot ( REN TV ", November 9, 2007). In 2007, he also appeared in the episodic role of a news presenter in the film “ Election Day ” ^[48] .

From December 2011 to March 2012 he was the host of the program “The Main for the Week with Vladimir Kara-Murza” on Network Public Television ^[49] .

Radio

On “Echo of Moscow” in July 2003 there was a “Replica of Kara-Murza” ^[50] , from 2003 to 2007 in the same place - co-host of the program “Well and a day” ^[51] , from 2006 to June 1, 2019 (until 2013 - In conjunction with the RTVi channel), the weekly author's final program, “Faces of the Week with Vladimir Kara-Murza”, was released ^{[52] [53]} .

Since 2005, he also worked on Radio Liberty with the author's talk show “The Edge of Time” ^{[54] [55]} (from 2005 to 2016 every day on weekdays, in 2017 every other day with Mumin Shakirov , from October 2017 to October In 2018, the program was broadcast twice a week: on Monday and Thursday) ^[56] . October 29, 2018 was the last release of the program, which was conducted by Vladimir Kara-Murza ^[57] .

Print Editions

From February 2014 to June 2019, he led a column on television in the Sobesednik newspaper. For 5 years, about 180 notes of the author were published in the publication ^[58] .

Death

In the last years of his life he was seriously ill, suffered several strokes ^[59] . He died in his 60th year of life on July 28, 2019 in Moscow “at eight in the morning, on the day of his name day, ” as reported by his son Vladimir the Younger ^{[60] [61]} . The cause of death of a journalist is a detached blood clot ^[62] . He was buried on July 31, 2019 at the Danilovsky cemetery near the grave of his father ^{[63] [64]} .

Since 2000, he has been an implacable critic of President Vladimir Putin and the Russian authorities in general ^{[8] [65]} . In 2004, he became one of the founders of the opposition Committee-2008 . In the same year, he declared: “Since I am a person with a historical education, I believe that until 2008 the regime in its current form will not be able to exist” ^[66] .

Negatively related to the annexation of Crimea to Russia in March 2014 ^{[67] [68]} .

In his publications he regularly criticized the programs of modern Russian television and their presenters ^[58] .

In 2018, he was one of the proxies of Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election ^[69] .

Father - Alexei Sergeyevich Kara-Murza (1914-1988), a historian and front-line journalist, in his works illuminated the Battle of Stalingrad . He was the editor-in-chief of the specialized journal “Teaching History at School” ^[70] .

Mother - Maya Voldemarovna Kara-Murza (virgin. Bisenieks) (born 1934), niece of Latvian diplomat Georg Bisenieks , who was accused of preparing the murder of Sergei Kirov . Due to this fact, she was considered the daughter of an enemy of the people and could not enter any institution. She met Alexey Sergeyevich in the technical school in which he taught, and became his second wife ^[71] . In the 2000s, he was an activist in the section of the descendants of the victims of political repressions of the Memorial society ^[72] .

He was married twice ^[73] .

The son from his first marriage is a public figure, politician and publicist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.

• Vladimir Kara-Murza on the site "Echo of Moscow"
• Vladimir Kara-Murza: “Our main enemy is not Putin, but the lack of free choice”
• Vladimir Kara-Murza: “Let them clean in Chelsea or in New York”