Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary that bears his name, remains imprisoned outside Moscow, and thus unable to attend the Academy Awards tonight. Bu…
, from CNN Films, is considered one of the favorites to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.Roher’s film documents how Navalny emerged as a serious rival to Vladimir Putin, attracting significant support from the Russia public for his campaign against Kremlin corruption and open criticism of Putin. In August 2020 Navalny made a campaign tour of Siberia in support of allies of his political movement and on the flight back to Moscow became deathly ill.
Russia recently added the Bulgarian-born Grosev to a “most wanted” list, meaning he is subject to arrest if he steps foot in the country. Navalny reportedly was transferred within the past year to a maximum-security prison in the town of Melekhovo in the Vladimir region of Russia, about a hundred miles east of Moscow. The documentary shows how he recuperated from his poisoning in Germany, then made the fateful decision to return to Russia. Immediately on his arrival in January 2021 he was arrested and later convicted of violating parole on an earlier charge.
Yulia Navalnaya trained as an economist and became prominent in Russia as her husband’s political career blossomed. She has sometimes been referred to as the First Lady of the Russian Opposition. Without her efforts, which included publicly pressuring Russian doctors to release her husband for treatment in Europe after his poisoning, her husband might never have been granted passage out of Russia.
Roher recently told Deadline that Navalny “is still in the gulag, he’s still in prison. And his personal situation has been downgraded to the most horrible solitary confinement condition.”“For me, that’s a very bitter part of this,” Roher told Deadline in January. “It’s very sad that he hasn’t gotten to see the film. One thing I always think of with Navalny is how enthusiastic he was about being a film subject.
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