They Chose Freedom is a four-part TV documentary on the history of political dissent in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1990s. It was produced in 2005 by Vladimir Kara-Murza.
They Chose Freedom
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza is a Russian-British political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker, and political prisoner. A protégé of Boris Nemtsov, he is vice-chairman of Open Russia, an NGO founded by Russian businessman and former oligarch 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. He has directed two documentaries, They Chose Freedom and Nemtsov. As of 2021, he acts as Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was awarded the Civil Courage Prize in 2018.
Kara-Murza in 2017
Kara-Murza makes the sign of the cross at the place of assassination of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow on 27 February 2021.
Kara-Murza and Boris Nemtsov's daughter Zhanna Nemtsova on 20 June 2018
Presentation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe report in the Hofburg in 2020
