A major Kremlin critic detained in Russia has been granted honorary Canadian citizenship in a bid to help win his freedom - prompting calls for the US and Britain to play their part to increase his chances of making it out alive. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a close ally of murdered opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, was jailed for 25 years on treason charges on April 17 this year after surviving two poisonings which left him in a coma in both 2015 and 2017. The 41-year-old British-Russian national also lived in Washington for at least a decade, and his wife Evgenia Kara-Murza is still based in the US with their three children aged 11, 14, and 17.
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