Navalny Receives Academic Award for Best Documentary Feature

” Navalny ,” a documentary about the plot to assassinate Former presidential candidate and anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny in Russia, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature on Sunday.

‘Navalny’ receives the Academy Award for best documentary feature.

The gripping true-life thriller recounts Navalny’s political rise, his survival of a poisoning attempt on him, and his subsequent imprisonment. “Navalny,” directed by Daniel Roher and produced by CNN Films and HBO Max, follows a painstaking investigation by CNN Chief Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward and journalist collective Bellingcat to identify Navalny’s assailants.

“Navalny” will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2022. In February, the critically praised project received a BAFTA Award for best documentary. CNN Films has previously been nominating for five Academy Awards, but this is their first Oscar.

Navalny, an ardent Kremlin critic, is currently serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security jail east of Moscow.

Dasha Navalnaya, his daughter, recently told CNN’s Erin Burnett. That her father is still urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to cease the war in Ukraine. “We will not stop fighting,” Navalnaya adds. Until the war is over and her father is freedng.

In 2020, he was poison with the nerve toxin Novichok. An attack that numerous Western officials and Navalny explicitly placed on the Kremlin. Moscow has categorically denied any involvement. Navalny returning to Moscow after spending many months in Germany recovering from the poisoning. When he was immediately detained for violating probation terms impose in a 2014 embezzlement case that he claims was politically motivated.

He was convicting to 2.5 years in jail, but was eventually releasing sentence to nine years due to other claims that he stole from his anti-corruption charity.

Dasha Navalnaya stated that her father’s work and anti-corruption foundation’s “primary goal” is for Russia to “become a free state, to have open elections, to have freedom of press, freedom of expression, and basically to have the possibility to become a member of the regular Western democratized community.”

She also expressed growing concern about her father’s current prison conditions, claiming that her family has had limited contact to him and that his attorneys can only see him “behind a guarded veil.”

“So we don’t know for sure his health situation. Also he hasn’t seen his family in over a year,” she explains. “I haven’t seeing him in person in over a year, which is extremely worrying giving his deteriorating health.”

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