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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Photo of RUSSIAN ACTIVIST: Vladimir Kara-Murza, a journalist, filmmaker and political activist in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he speaks to the media at at the CMHR Monday. For story on one of Russia's most outspoken advocates for democracy and human rights who will be speaking at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) on October 30 as part of its President's Lecture Series. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a journalist, filmmaker and political activist, has been on the front lines of opposition to Russian president Vladimir Putin. In 2015, he was poisoned and nearly died - three months after his close friend, opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin. In 2017, Kara-Murza was poisoned again. See Kevin Rollason story. October 29, 2018