LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) – The movie “Navalny” concerning the poisoning that just about killed Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most distinguished opposition chief, and his detention upon his 2021 return to Moscow, received the Oscar for finest characteristic documentary on Sunday.
Becoming a member of director Daniel Roher on stage, Navalny’s spouse Yulia Navalnaya stated: “My husband is in jail only for telling the reality. My husband is in jail only for defending democracy. Alexei, I’m dreaming of the day when you’ll be free and our nation shall be free.
“Keep robust my love. Thanks.”
The CNN Movies/HBO Max documentary follows Navalny as he recovers in Germany from his poisoning in Siberia with a Soviet-era nerve toxin which Western nations stated was a Russian state assassination try to silence the outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin denied involvement.
Within the documentary, Navalny works with investigative information outlet Bellingcat they usually unmask FSB brokers despatched to poison Navalny in 2020. Navalny, pretending to be a Russian official, calls one of many brokers who describes the poisoning plot.
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He decides to return to Russia in January 2021 with Yulia and throngs of supporters await his arrival. He’s arrested on the airport and later sentenced to a mixed 11-1/2 years in jail in two separate fraud instances, which he says had been trumped as much as silence him.
His anti-corruption group was banned as extremist.
“Alexei, the world has not forgotten your very important message to us all. We can’t be, should not be afraid to oppose dictators and authoritarianism wherever it rears its head,” Roher stated in accepting the award, with Navalny’s spouse, daughter and son behind him.
The daughter, Daria Navalnaya, stated on her arrival she was “very pleased that the film is getting the eye that it deserves.”
“Do not cease preventing for democracy and freedom around the globe and we will get my dad out and we will preserve preventing,” she stated in an interview.
Navalny, 46, is the very best profile of the few remaining opposition voices in Russia and is serving his sentence in a most safety penal colony in Russia. Supporters say his well being has deteriorated after round a dozen spells in solitary confinement.
Interesting unsuccessfully in Could in opposition to one among his sentences, Navalny solid Putin as a doomed madman who began a “silly warfare” in opposition to Ukraine that was butchering harmless folks of each Ukraine and Russia.
On the finish of the movie, Navalny is requested what his message can be to the Russian folks if he had been killed.
“You are not allowed to surrender,” he stated.
Reporting by Mary Milliken; Enhancing by Howard Goller
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