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Oscars’ In Memoriam Segment Honors Aleksei Navalny, Among Film Greats

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Oscars’ In Memoriam Segment Honors Aleksei Navalny, Among Film Greats

The in memoriam segment at the Academy Awards opened not with a Hollywood star, but with a clip of Aleksei A. Navalny from “Navalny,” the Oscar-winning 2022 documentary about the Russian opposition leader who died last month in a Russian prison. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to … Read more

The Documentary Aleksei Navalny Knew We’d Watch After His Death

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The Documentary Aleksei Navalny Knew We’d Watch After His Death

About two-thirds of the way through, Navalny is relaxing between interviews with Roher when a woman asks if he’s getting annoyed by the questions about his past. No, Navalny tells her, in Russian: Roher can ask whatever he wants. She says that’s fine, but that he seems agitated. Navalny stops and explains: “It’s just that … Read more