Russian opposition figure detained by police in Moscow, activist says

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who was twice sickened in incidents he suspected had been poisonings, has been detained in Moscow by police, one other distinguished opposition determine stated Monday.

Ilya Yashin stated on Twitter that Kara-Murza was detained Monday close to his Moscow residence. It was unclear whether or not he had been charged.

Kara-Murza was hospitalized with poisoning signs twice, in 2015 and 2017. A journalist and affiliate of Russian opposition chief Boris Nemtsov, who was shot and killed in 2015, and oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Kara-Murza practically died from kidney failure within the first incident. He suspects he was poisoned however no trigger has been decided.

He was taken to a hospital with a sudden, comparable sickness in 2017 and put right into a medically induced coma. His spouse stated docs confirmed that he was poisoned.

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