Russian activist who said he had been poisoned is detained

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Russian activist who said he had been poisoned is detained

Associated Press | Monday, April 11, 2022 9:16 p.m.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition activist, arrives to lay flowers near the place where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in Moscow.

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who was twice sickened in incidents he suspected were poisonings, has been detained in Moscow by police, another prominent opposition figure said Monday.

Ilya Yashin said on Twitter that Kara-Murza was detained Monday near his Moscow residence. It was unclear whether he had been charged.

Kara-Murza was hospitalized with poisoning symptoms twice, in 2015 and 2017. A journalist and associate of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot and killed in 2015, and oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Kara-Murza nearly died from kidney failure in the first incident. He suspects he was poisoned but no cause has been determined.

Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was poisoned twice, told Big Picture's Sara Sidner, "The Putin regime will end over this war." He was just detained in Moscow, hours after his interview aired.

Watch the interview on CNN+: https://t.co/9kjMeZlwrE pic.twitter.com/TOR4jTFwQj

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He was taken to a hospital with a sudden, similar illness in 2017 and put into a medically induced coma. His wife said doctors confirmed that he was poisoned.

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