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Evgenia Kara-Murza

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  1. “Position there. So we could have stayed in Tallinn and in the former Soviet Union, you know, in Soviet Union living in one of the Baltic states was hugely desirable because this was as close to the West you could get. And life there was much, it was different from everywhere else in the Soviet Union for obvious reasons. And I remember that my father rejected that offer. And he said that he did not want to be an occupier. So I think that my studies in languages, my studies in literature help me connect the dots between the events that were happening around me.”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Everything I could find by Remark. So I have this understanding of the war and the absolutely the horror of the war. I also read Soviet dissidents and their memoirs and the stories they told about how life was in the Soviet Union. So I think I was mostly affected by that, by my exposure to all that literature written by people who had been persecuted throughout the Soviet Union. And also I remember there was this, the grown-ups around me would do things and I would ask questions why. You know, for example, at some point, my father was relocated, moved to Estonia, to Tallinn. And he was offered.”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “You know, I think in our family, Vladimir was the one truly affected by the actual events. And I think that my education mostly came from books. Because after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we finally got access to all these amazing literature on the dissident. Movement, I”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “That is true. Yes, I switched schools. I switched schools at the age of 11. Vladimir was Dan at the time. I was much older and wiser. So yes, we work classmates for a few years before he moved to the UK. So he finished school in the UK and went to Cambridge. And every year throughout his years in Cambridge, he would come to celebrate his birthday in Moscow and he would get together as many of our classmates as he could. And I was among these people, so we kept in touch throughout the years. And then, yes, in our last year in college, we got together and have been inseparable.”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Father said, Well, yes, he went along and we stayed in Moscow. And that's where I went to school and graduated from school and went to the Moscow Linguistics University to study languages, to study French that I adored. And I wanted to be a French translator and interpreter. I don't know from the age of Eighth grade, I think. That's when I decided that I would become an interpreter. And I love that job and I did work as an interpreter for several years”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “No, I was just about to turn seven and we came to Moscow and my mom had been very loyally traveling with my father across the country, everywhere. She gave birth to me on this small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean while my father was at sea and my mom had to walk through this island to the hospital. So she's really a fighter herself, a warrior, truly. But we came to Moscow and she said, that's it. She and she meant me. She needs some stability in her life. She needs to go to school. She needs a good college. And she said, well, I'm staying. That's it. And my father, who's absolutely in love with my mom, they were married in 1977. And they're still madly in love with each other.”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “And I am a curious person. I love being exposed to different cultures, to different languages. I studied linguistics and foreign languages in college. I've always loved that. The diversity of the world. And because I'm so curious, I find something interesting, something valuable, something great about any place I come to.”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Yes, I was indeed born on the Curil Islands near Japan. And my parents traveled a lot. They moved a lot across the former Soviet Union. So I lived in many cities before we settled in Moscow. And I also had one set of grandparents in the north of Russia in Murmansk, my mom's parents. and my father's parents used to live in the south of Russia in the Kras and Dark Rhine. And so I did this, you know, I would fly from the Kruel Islands, crossing the entire country to see one set of grandparents and spend my summers with another set of grandparents and back to the Kuril Islands. So we traveled a lot and I think it made me a bit of a cosmopolitan, truly, because I Nowadays, I believe that my home is where my loved ones are, and I build my nest around the people I live in.”

    2024-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 584 – Evgenia Kara-Murza · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source