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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Alexey navalny film on fighting the kremlin wins academy award | Mind Blowing Facts

An image depicting jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny reading 'the hero of the new age' in St Petersburg, Russia [File: Anton Vaganov/Reuters]

The movie Navalny, a look at the Russian dissident who was poisoned with a nerve agent and nearly died, captured the Oscar for best documentary feature.

Director Daniel Roher’s portrait of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has shadowy operatives, truth-seeking journalists, conspiracy theories and Soviet-era poisons. It is a film with obvious political poignance following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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