Read More...WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian opposition figure is urging U.S. authorities to impose sanctions against a greater number of top Russian government officials in order to defend human rights and democracy in his country. Speaking at a hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Vladimir Kara-Murza suggested that “the most principled way, the most honorable way” to aid the human rights cause in Russia is to punish individual officials involved in rights abuses.