Jailed Russian dissident and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for commentaries for his articles that appeared in The Washington Post. Kara-Murza "won for passionate columns written at great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin's Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country," the Pulitzer Committee said in a statement on May 6. Kara-Murza is currently serving a 25-year sentence -- the longest jail term handed to a Kremlin opponent in post-Soviet Russia -- for discrediting the Russian military and treason over remarks he made in speeches outside Russia that criticized Kremlin policies.
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