Even in death, Alexei Navalny hasn't given up the fight against corruption in Russia
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
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Though his voice has fallen silent, his wife Yulia Navalnaya is sharing his message. She now leads the movement her husband started, fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin's grip on power.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so Alexei, I want to talk about something that we sort of touched on this morning, |
| 0:05.0 | and you might hate this, but I really want you to think about it. |
| 0:09.0 | If you are killed, if this does happen, what message do you leave behind to the Russian people? |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, come on, Daniel. |
| 0:20.0 | No, no way, it's like you're making movie for the case of my death. |
| 0:25.0 | Like again, I'm ready to answer your question, but please let me let it be another movie. |
| 0:34.0 | Movie number two. |
| 0:35.0 | Let's make a thriller out of this movie. |
| 0:38.0 | That's Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaking with Director Daniel Rohar in the opening moments of the documentary, |
| 0:45.8 | Navalny. |
| 0:47.2 | Of course that film was not a trailer for a second movie. |
| 0:50.8 | Last year it won the Oscar for Best Documentary. |
| 0:54.4 | The film chronicled his final moments of freedom before he was imprisoned for the rest of |
| 0:58.8 | his life. |
| 0:59.8 | Out of Russia, we're getting reports that jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is now dead. |
| 1:07.0 | Navalny's mother saw him Monday and said he was in good spirits. |
| 1:11.0 | Yet somehow Alexi Navalivalny dropped dead suddenly at a penal colony in Siberia. |
| 1:17.0 | People are angry, but they're also deeply saddened at losing what they consider to be a beacon of democracy in Russia. |
| 1:25.0 | By the time Naval colony north of the Arctic Circle last February, |
| 1:30.0 | he'd been a powerful opposition force in Russia for more than a decade. |
| 1:35.0 | During those years, Nervolni chronicled government corruption on his blog and YouTube channel. |
| 1:40.4 | He ran for mayor of Moscow and tried to challenge Putin for president in 2018. |
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