A fierce critic of the Kremlin is urging U.S. President Donald Trump to be tough with his Russian counterpart during an upcoming summit and use the occasion to discuss political prisoners held by Moscow.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a historian and prominent Russian democracy activist, warned Trump on July 2 that he should not follow an “unfortunate bipartisan tradition of U.S. presidents,” who he said have sought to accommodate Russian President Vladimir Putin in their first contacts in the past two decades.
