Statement by Evgenia Kara-Murza, wife of Open Russia coordinator Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was hospitalised on May 26, and was subsequently diagnosed with severe kidney failure due to some type of intoxication.

“The condition of my husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been in the intensive care unit in N. I. Pirogov City Hospital No. 1, has clearly improved. There have been some positive signs; and the doctors have reduced the level of drugs they have been giving him. We now have hope that Volodya will recover.

Our family would like to express the deepest gratitude to doctors Alexei Svet and Denis Protsenko, of City Hospital No. 1, to professors Eran Moshe Segal and Alexander Tartakovsky, as well as the company Imedical Israel, and personally to its director Gregory Sambulov.

Many thanks to everyone who has supported us during this difficult time, for your expressions of help and sympathy, and to those of you who have been praying for Volodya’s health, and wishing him a speedy recovery.

Thank you to you all!

Evgenia Kara-Murza”