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New York — Russian opposition leader and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Vladimir Kara-Murza will have a book out next spring, what he calls a “personal testimony and historical account” of life over the past quarter century under President Vladimir Putin.
Public Affairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, announced Wednesday that “One Day Free” by Kara-Murza will be published on May 18.
Kara-Murza said in a statement published through Public Affairs that his book examines Putin’s rule and gives “an honest look at those people, both in Russia and in the West, who strengthened and enabled him – and at those who fought him, sometimes at the cost of their own lives.”
Kara-Murza, 45, is an activist, journalist and filmmaker who was arrested in 2022 after publicly opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and sentenced to 25 years. He was released in 2024 as part of a prisoner exchange and now lives in the United States, where he is vice president of Open Russia, a pro-democracy NGO founded by exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
While in prison, he won a Pulitzer for reporting for the columns he contributed to the Washington Post. He also endured 11 months of solitary confinement in Siberia and two poisonings that he blamed on Russian officials.
“Despite everything, I am optimistic about Russia and the future,” said Kara-Murza. “History knows many examples of once-terrible messes becoming peaceful civilized democracies – and no country in the world is ever ‘destined’ to be unfree.”
