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News March 10, 2025

Pulitzer on the Road Podcast: Season Two, Episode One: Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian Imprisonment and Fighting for Democracy

Vladimir Kara-Murza won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for opinion columns (published in The Washington Post) that were written from solitary confinement in a Siberian prison. 

In this episode, Kara-Murza and Pulitzer Board member/2004 General Nonfiction winner Anne Applebaum discuss his imprisonment, 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. 

A transcript to this episode is available here.

Click here to learn more about the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast and to listen to more episodes. 

The Pulitzer on the Road Podcast is a production of the Pulitzer Prize Board and is produced by Pineapple Street Studios. Our host is Nicole Carroll, Pulitzer Board member and professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Senior producer is Justine Daum, and executive producers are Bari Finkel and Pulitzer Administrator Marjorie Miller.

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