Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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Vladimir Kara-Murza won the 2024 Pulitzer in Commentary for opinion columns he wrote from solitary confinement in a Siberian prison. He and 2004 winner and Pulitzer Board member Anne Applebaum discuss how he published columns while imprisoned, what it was like being released in the largest US-Russia prisoner exchange since the Cold War, and why he believes democracy is inevitable for his homeland. 


To access this transcript and learn more about Vladimir Kara-Murza's Pulitzer-winning work, visit Pulitzer on the Road (pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts)








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