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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Navalny,” a film that examines the poisoning of jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, on Sunday won the Oscar for best documentary feature.<\/p>\n
Canadian director Daniel Roher’s movie looks at the political rise of Navalny, the most prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok on a trip to Siberia in 2020 and the subsequent probe.<\/p>\n
“There’s one person who couldn’t be with us here tonight — Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, who remains in solitary confinement for what he calls — I want to make sure we get his words exactly right –Vladimir Putin’s unjust war of aggression in Ukraine, ” Roher told the audience as he accepted the golden statuette.<\/p>\n
The 46-year-old Navalny, who has been held for the past two years at a maximum-security prison outside Moscow after an embezzlement conviction, has accused Putin of being behind the poisoning attack.<\/p>\n
“My husband is in prison just for telling the truth. My husband is in prison just for defending democracy,” Yulia Navalnaya said.<\/p>\n
The film, which premiered at the Sundance film festival in January 2022, won a BAFTA last month.<\/p>\n
It bested “All That Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love” and “A House Made of Splinters.”<\/p>\n
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