Navalny

Director Daniel Roher makes the case for Alexei Navalny's potential to get out of prison and take on his country's tyrannical leader.

“It’s up to thought leaders to keep him in the global conversation,” Roher said. “Everybody has a role to play in that.” Roher said the biggest challenge in interviewing Navalny came when he asked the activist to contemplate the possibility that he might die in prison. “He doesn’t like to think about his own mortality,” Roher said. “The learning curve was as steep as any,” Roher said. “Navalny” assembles the story of its subject’s activism through his bracing first-person testimony all the way up to his arrest. “I don’t know if Alexei should win or if he’s the best man for the job,” Roher said. “Alexei is imperiled, there’s no doubt about that,” Roher said. Then he heard from Bulgharian journalist Christo Grozev, a collaborator on the Ukraine project, about the possibility of directing a documentary on Navalny in Germany while he recovered from the government’s attempt to poison him. “I was sort of adrift,” he said. “It’s a failed state.” Daniel Roher knew little about the Russian political landscape when he started interviewing Alexei Navalny for a documentary in 2020.

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S brutal regime has been exposed in a documentary after Alexei Navalny tricked an FSB agent, before realising the Russian tyrant may then ...

The crew made an emergency landing, and in doing so saved his life, after it later emerged that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent that has been linked to other attacks on Putin’s enemies. Mr Navalny was travelling from Siberia to Moscow in August 2020 when he was taken seriously ill. In March, a Russian court sentenced Mr Navalny to a further nine years in a penal colony after convicting him of fraud and contempt of court.

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It was later determined that the attack was likely carried out by FSB agents. Who is Konstantin Kudryavtsev? Who is Konstantin Kudryavtsev?

Programme was filmed as Navalny recovered from an assassination attempt ... The documentary Navalny, which follows Russian opposition leader, lawyer and anti- ...

This was in addition to the two-and-a-half year sentence he is already serving. You can watch it on iPlayer here. It on BBC Two at 9pm tonight. In August 2020, Mr Navalny was on a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow. He was taken seriously ill so the crew decided to make an emergency landing and in doing so saved his life. The documentary follows Mr Navalny as he and his team investigate the plot against him and find evidence of the Kremlin’s involvement. It was made when Mr Navalny was in Germany in late 2020 and 2021 and recovering from the failed assassination attempt on his life.

Yulia Navalnaya is the wife of Russia's imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The politician is the most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin's regime. She ...

After demanding she be present at his trial, a video link showed Yulia and her husband having their first embrace in months. She is devoted to her husband who was serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for breaking bail conditions, before being given a nine year term for contempt of court and fraud in March 22, 2022. She was born on July 24, 1976, in Moscow, then the capital of the USSR, and graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy Yulia Navalnaya is the wife of Russia's imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Who is Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia Navalnaya? Who is Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya?

Ahead of Navalny's Hot Docs premiere April 30, Daniel Roher spoke with The Globe and Mail about politics, cinema and security protocols.

We made a decision to rush this out into the world instead of sticking to a release strategy that a film like this might adhere to. As the movie continues to proliferate throughout the world, the ire of the Kremlin might refocus on us. I was working on a different film, when in September, 2020, I was invited to travel to Vienna to meet this Bulgarian journalist, this Sherlock Holmes character named Christo Grozev. That trip turned into a visit to Kyiv. Christo said he might have a lead for Navalny. A week and a half later, I met Alexey and it was now my job to convince him that not only was a documentary a good idea, but that it should be me who leads the project. More than anything I was guided by the vital necessity of this film being released now. It’s hard to be optimistic now, but I know that if Alexey were here, he’d remind us that Putin’s regime has never been on shakier ground. And because of that, Alexey’s life is in less risk than it would otherwise be. Some members of my family didn’t know, because of the dangerous nature of the work. When I finished Once Were Brothers, I had the sense that my career was going to take off, that doors would swing wide open. You can’t be a person living in 2022 with a conscience and not see this for what it is: an egregious war being waged by Russia for no strategic purposes. Featuring extensive interview footage with Navalny, which was shot just before the anti-corruption activist returned home to Russia, where he is now imprisoned, Roher’s film is a nerve-wracking, pulse-pounding trip through the Putin regime. I was sitting around in lockdown, trying to figure out my next move. We could’ve renamed this the I Told You So Film: Alexey has been saying for years what could happen if no one holds these guys to account, and now we’re seeing the consequences of not listening.