U.K., Nov. 9 -- UK Parliament issued the following news:

Leading Russian opposition politician and former political prisoner, Vladimir Kara-Murza will give evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee on UK and European relations with Russia.

Mr Kara-Murza is a long-standing critic of President Vladimir Putin. In 2022, Mr Kara-Murza was arrested in Moscow for publicly denouncing the invasion of Ukraine and the actions of Russian forces.

He was held in a series of penal colonies, including periods in solitary confinement and punitive isolation. He was released in August 2024 as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War negotiated by the US and German governments.

Mr Kara-Murza will appear as the first panel in this evidence session. During this panel, Members are likely to ask about Mr Kara-Murza's experience as a dissident in Putin's Russia.

The Committee is likely to ask for his assessment of the prospect of political change within Russia and whether Western governments are striking the right balance when it comes to engaging with Russian civil society, and penalising Russian aggression.

In the second panel, the Committee will hear evidence from Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and Marija Golubeva, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Latvia. They will appear alongside expert Gregoire Roos, Director of the Europe, Russia and Eurasia Programmes, Chatham House.

This panel will focus on European security and Russia's use of hybrid warfare in Europe. Questions are likely to focus on how NATO and Europe should respond to Russia's hybrid war, including whether NATO should lay down "red lines".

The panel will also examine Russia's war against Ukraine. Members are likely to question witnesses about the viability of a "Coalition of the Willing". Questions are likely to also cover the security guarantees that may make up part of a negotiated deal, and ask what role European states may play in underpinning them.

Witnesses

14.00:

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition politician, author and former political prisoner

14.30:

Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

Marija Golubeva, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Latvia

Gregoire Roos, Director of the Europe, Russia and Eurasia Programmes, Chatham House

Further information

About Parliament: Select committees

Visiting Parliament: Watch committees

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