Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Goes to "Navalny"

The documentary "Navalny" won the Oscar for best documentary feature, highlighting the attempt to assassinate Alexey Navalny.

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The gripping true-crime thriller recounts Navalny's political rise, his escape from a poisoning attempt on his life, and his subsequent incarceration.

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Navalny follows CNN Chief Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward and Bellingcat's investigation to identify potential assassins.

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The Sundance Film Festival hosted the world premiere of "Navalny" in January 2022. Despite being nominated for five previous Academy Awards, CNN Films has never won one.

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Navalny, a vocal opponent of the Kremlin, is currently incarcerated in a high-security facility east of Moscow for nine years.

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Dasha Navalnaya, his daughter, recently informed CNN's Erin Burnett that her father continues to urge Vladimir Putin of Russia to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine.

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In 2020, he was poisoned with the nerve toxin Novichok, an attack that numerous Western officials and Navalny explicitly placed on the Kremlin.

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Navalny was arrested for violating probation in a 2014 embezzlement case, which he claimed was politically motivated.

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He was condemned to two and a half years in prison, but was later convicted to nine years in prison on other charges of stealing from his anti-corruption charity.

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Dasha Navalnaya's father's goal is for Russia to become a free state, with open elections, freedom of press, speech, and opportunity.

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She expressed concern about his current prison conditions, claiming that his family has had limited contact and his attorneys can only see him behind a guarded veil.

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"So we don't know for sure his health situation, and he hasn't seen his family in over a year," she explained.

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The documentary "Navalny" won the Oscar for best documentary feature, highlighting the attempt to assassinate Alexey Navalny.

The gripping true-crime thriller recounts Navalny's political rise, his escape from a poisoning attempt on his life, and his subsequent incarceration.

Navalny follows CNN Chief Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward and Bellingcat's investigation to identify potential assassins.

The Sundance Film Festival hosted the world premiere of "Navalny" in January 2022. Despite being nominated for five previous Academy Awards, CNN Films has never won one.

Navalny, a vocal opponent of the Kremlin, is currently incarcerated in a high-security facility east of Moscow for nine years.

Dasha Navalnaya, his daughter, recently informed CNN's Erin Burnett that her father continues to urge Vladimir Putin of Russia to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine.

In 2020, he was poisoned with the nerve toxin Novichok, an attack that numerous Western officials and Navalny explicitly placed on the Kremlin.

Navalny was arrested for violating probation in a 2014 embezzlement case, which he claimed was politically motivated.

He was condemned to two and a half years in prison, but was later convicted to nine years in prison on other charges of stealing from his anti-corruption charity.

Dasha Navalnaya's father's goal is for Russia to become a free state, with open elections, freedom of press, speech, and opportunity.

She expressed concern about his current prison conditions, claiming that his family has had limited contact and his attorneys can only see him behind a guarded veil.

"So we don't know for sure his health situation, and he hasn't seen his family in over a year," she explained.

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