''Politician' means something different for Russians,' writes CNN's Zachary B. Wolf in a Q&A with Maria Pevchikh -- head of investigations for Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation
A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Perhaps the most striking element of CNN's new film,"Navalny" -- which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN and is about the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny -- is his decision to return to Russia, after his poisoning, to face prison or death.
While Navalny is facing years in a Russian penal colony and only sporadically able to communicate with the outside world, his chief of staff and others carry on his work, largely with posts to YouTube.I talked to Maria Pevchikh, head of investigations for Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, about how the work continues, whether it's seen in Russia and why the word"politician" has a very different meaning there.
Meet Putin's biggest threat 03:14This is the price of calling yourself a politician in Russia. And Alexey is exactly like that ... He knew perfectly what was going to happen to him when he landed in Moscow ... that he would be arrested. It was a conscious decision, a conscious choice that he made in order to stand by the principles that he is committed to, in order to stand by the words that he was saying to the people as a politician, in order to lead by example.
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