Political Career
From 2000 until 2003 Kara-Murza served as plenipotentiary representative of Russia's Union of Rightist Forces party in Great Britain and as an adviser to party leader Boris Nemtsov. In the 2003 Russian parliamentary election Kara-Murza contested the Chertanovsky constituency in Moscow as the democratic opposition candidate, with the backing of the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko parties. According to international and domestic monitors, the campaign's coverage in state-controlled media was heavily biased in favour of the pro-government United Russia party, which emerged with more than two-thirds of the seats in the new State Duma. In the Chertanovsky constituency, Kara-Murza received 23,800 votes and came second out of 10 candidates (after United Russia candidate Vladimir Gruzdev).
In May 2007 Kara-Murza initiated the nomination of Vladimir Bukovsky, a writer and prominent Soviet-era dissident, as a candidate in the 2008 Russian presidential election and served as the national coordinator of Bukovsky's presidential campaign committee, which included Yuri Ryzhov, Viktor Shenderovich, Andrei Piontkovsky, Alexander Podrabinek, and others. On December 22, 2007 the Russian Central Electoral Commission announced its refusal to register Bukovsky as a candidate.
In December 2007 Kara-Murza was elected to the Federal Political Council of the Union of Rightist Forces, but left the party in September 2008 in protest at its deal with the Kremlin. He is currently a member of the Federal Political Council of "Solidarnost" (elected in December 2008, re-elected in December 2010), and is responsible for the movement's international relations.
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