Daniel Roher's Oscar-Winning Film Celebrates the Late Navalny
On February 16th, it was announced that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in prison. The Vladimir Putin critic had been in Russian captivity on charges of embezzlement and extremism \u2013 and had recently been transferred to a remote penal colony in the Arctic Circle, where Russian authorities claimed the 47-year old died from \u201csudden death syndrome.\u201d In the wake of the tragic news, world leaders directly blamed Putin for Navalny\u2019s death. In 2022, Alec Baldwin spoke with Daniel Roher, the director of the Academy-Award-winning documentary, \u201cNavalny,\u201d which follows the activist in the wake of his 2020 poisoning as he works to uncover those responsible for the assassination attempt against him, before voluntarily returning to Russia. Roher and his collaborator in the film, investigative journalist Christo Grozev, spoke with Alec Baldwin about Navalny\u2019s bravery, why poison is the Kremlin\u2019s weapon of choice and the final moments they spent with Navalny before his heroic return to Russia.
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