Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, who defended Kara-Murza, Yashin and Nemtsov, left Russia due to the threat of a criminal case
Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, in an interview with Voice of America , said that he left Russia a few days before the sentencing of his client, oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza. He explained this by saying that he was threatened with criminal charges. “Both the prosecutor and the judge in the [trial] trial, for various reasons, stated that [I] needed not only to be expelled from the bar, but also to consider the issue of initiating a criminal case,” Prokhorov said.