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URL:http://www.russianmix.com/events/viewevent/5145-dissident-speaker-series-nemtsov-with-vladimir-kara-murza/ 
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SUMMARY:Dissident Speaker Series: "Nemtsov" with Vladimir Kara-Murza
DESCRIPTION:times: when he was a young scientist and took his first steps in politics; when he held high government offices and was considered Boris Yeltsin’s heir apparent; when he led Russia’s democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin. The film contains rare archival footage, including from the Nemtsov family. Nemtsov is a portrait. It is not about death. It is about the life of a man who could have been president of Russia.  Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza is a Russian opposition politician. He serves as vice chairman of Open Russia, a NGO founded by Russian businessman and former political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. Kara-Murza holds an M.A. in history from Cambridge University.
Writer and director: Vladimir V. Kara-Murza. Executive producer: Renat Davletgildeev. 66 min. Russia, 2016.
About the film
Co-sponsors:  MIT Center for International Studies, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, and MIT Russia
 
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Free & open to the public |  Refreshments served Can't attend in person? Watch it on Facebook live or on-demand on YouTube. For more information or accessibility accommodations please contact organizer Susan Hahn.
LOCATION:MIT 6-120, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02142
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