When asked by journalists about the reaction of Western viewers, Grozev said: “I talked to many people who saw the film, and they said: “I didn’t know that. I did not know that in the 21st century there is such a state of the first world, it exists next to us and we communicate with it as if they were a normal state. You need to talk to them like they’re North Korea times 100. With nuclear weapons.”
Grozev called the film very honest and frank. According to him, Navalny answered all the questions that the creators of the tape asked him.
American CNN channel and streaming service HBO Max They made a film about the poisoning of Navalny by Novichok, about his treatment and return to Russia.
Oppositionist said that the decision to shoot was made when he was still in the hospital. They were held in the format “you do what you planned, mind your own business, and we’ll just walk around with a camera and shoot.” Filmed first on the phone by Navalny’s associate, head of the investigation department of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Maria Pevchikh.
The last time the film crew was with Navalny was at the moment when he was detained at the border control at the entrance to Russia.
Navalny has been undergoing treatment and rehabilitation in Germany since August 2020 after being poisoned with a Novichok-class warfare agent. The plane on which he flew from Tomsk to Moscow, urgently sat down in Omsk August 20 due to the deterioration of the politician’s condition. Navalny was initially in a hospital in Omsk, and on August 22 he was delivered at the Berlin clinic “Charite”. Politician was in a coma for 18 days. The opposition leader considers the assassination attempt a terrorist act organized by the FSB on Putin’s orders.
Bellingcat, The Insider, CNN and Der Spiegel investigation reporting Navalny was poisoned a group of FSB officers, won a news Emmy Award.
21 December Navalny released the videohow he called a probable FSB officer, a member of the group of poisoners Konstantin Kudryavtsev. The politician introduced himself as Nikolai Patrushev, Assistant Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and “asked to clarify the points necessary for the report to the authorities.” Navalny’s interlocutor confirmed the fact of the operation and said that he survived only due to a combination of circumstances, and also said that the poisonous substance put on his underwear. in the FSB called a fake Navalny’s conversation with a likely poisoner.
In 2021, Bellingcat reported that information about the movement of a group of FSB officers who probably poisoned Navalny suggests that these people are involved in other similar operations.
After Navalny returned to Russia in January 2021, he was arrested in the Yves Rocher case, in which he had previously received a suspended sentence and had to report to investigators, but did not do so due to treatment in Germany. Simonovsky Court of Moscow February 2 replaced his probation with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. Taking into account the time spent under house arrest, the politician will stay in a general regime colony for two years and 6.5 months.
Since March, Navalny has been in a colony in the Vladimir region, in the city of Pokrov. The politician said that registered as runaway February 18. In October, the leadership of the Pokrovskaya colony removed him from the preventive register as prone to escape and registered as an extremist and terrorist.
After the poisoning of Navalny, a number of Western countries imposed sanctions against Russia, including against alleged FSB officers involved in the poisoning.
On December 23, 2021, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said, speaking “about the person who was allegedly poisoned” (Putin does not pronounce Navalny’s last name), that it is necessary to “turn this page.” According to him, there is “not a single material” confirming the poisoning.
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