‘Navalny’ Director Daniel Roher On Russian Opposition Leader’s Shocking Death At 47: “Putin Is Responsible”
deadline.comDirector Daniel Roher is making no secret who he blames for the death behind bars of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, focus of his 2023 Oscar-winning documentary Navalny. “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin is responsible for his death.
That much is clear,” he told Deadline. “The particulars of how and those sorts of questions I don’t think we know yet, but to me, it’s obvious who is responsible.” Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service announced Friday that Navalny, 47, had died in a prison in the Arctic Circle, saying he fell ill after taking a walk in the facility.
Navalny had been under lock and key at various prisons in Russia after he returned to his homeland in 2021 from Germany, where he had undergone emergency treatment after a near-fatal poisoning attack (an assassination attempt also widely blamed on the Kremlin).
Just a day earlier, Navalny had made a court appearance by video from prison, appearing healthy and even making jokes with court officials. “In time, we will learn the details” of Navalny’s death, Roher predicted. “One thing you can count on is the Russian security service as being completely inept and moronic, as we saw in the documentary.
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