Vladimir Putin critic in coma after suspected poisoning

Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza placed in medical coma - two years after suffering similar symptoms

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Kara-Murza will fellow Putin critic Boris Nemtstov, who was gunned down in Moscow in 2015

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician and prominent Kremlin critic, has been placed in a medically induced coma after suffering organ failure caused by poison, his wife has said.

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