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John McCain Choosing Kara-Murza (anti-putlerist) As A Funeral Pallbearer. Great man great choice , Who´ll be Trumps choice? 1) Putin 2) Guzman
https://www.bustle.com/p/john-mccai...al-pallbearer-sends-a-strong-message-10930121
John McCain Choosing Vladimir Kara-Murza As A Funeral Pallbearer Sends A Strong Message
ByMonica Hunter-Hart
a day ago
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15 people will carry John McCain's casket at his Washington D.C. memorial service on Saturday. The late senator chose them personally for symbolic reasons, and one man is being called a beyond-the-grave condemnation of both Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza will be one of McCain's pallbearers in yet another final act that puts distance between McCain and the two leaders.
Kara-Murza is an anti-Putin activist and politician, as well as the vice chairman of Open Russia, an NGO that promotes Russian democracy and is blacklisted in the country, according to The Moscow Times. He's been poisoned and nearly died twice, and he told The Independent in 2017 that these attempts on his life were meant to silence him and could have been ordered by Putin himself. Josh Meyer at Politico wrote on Tuesday that he is "perhaps the biggest full-time thorn in Putin's side....McCain continued working with his personal hero and, according to Politico, they grew even closer over the years. Kara-Murza honored McCain with an editorial in The Washington Post on Monday. "Eighteen months ago, when I lay in a Moscow hospital, in a coma after a severe poisoning, McCain took to the floor of the Senate to draw attention to my case," he wrote. "Public attention is often the only protection in these situations; and it certainly was for me.""
McCain first initiated a relationship with Kara-Murza back in 2010, according to Politico, while the U.S. government was determining its official response
https://www.bustle.com/p/john-mccai...al-pallbearer-sends-a-strong-message-10930121
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