Education
Kara-Murza graduated from the history faculty of Moscow State University in 1981. While at the university, he was nearly expelled for defacing portraits of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
Journalist and television host
Kara-Murza graduated from the history faculty of Moscow State University in 1981. While at the university, he was nearly expelled for defacing portraits of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
He taught history at school. In the 1980s he refused state employment, citing his opposition to the Soviet regime. In 1992, with the onset of President Boris Yeltsin"s democratic reforms, he joined the weekly "Itogi" programme on Channel One of Russian television - first as editor, then as correspondent.
In April 1995 Kara-Murza became the anchor of NTV"s news programme "Today at Midnight".
In April 2001, in protest at the seizure of NTV by the Russian government, Kara-Murza, along with other NTV journalists (Yevgeny Kiselyov, Viktor Shenderovich, Mikhail Osokin, Svetlana Sorokina), went to television-6 channel, where he became anchor of the evening news programme "Grani" ("Angles" or "Points of View"). Kara-Murza continued his "Grani" programme, which enjoyed some of the highest viewer ratings on Russian television
In June 2003 TVS, Russia"s last independent television channel, was removed from the air by order of the Press Ministry. Since August 2003 Kara-Murza has been the evening news anchor at RTVi channel.
He is the father of Vladimir V. Kara-Murza.
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