Updated from 10:43 a.m. story with quotes from Navalny director Daniel Roher: Exclusive: Oscar-winning filmmaker Daniel Roher, director of Navalny, is reacting to the 19-year prison sentence against the Russian opposition leader rendered by a court outside Moscow today.
“It’s very upsetting, but very unsurprising,” Roher tells Deadline. “The regime has taken the approach of what I like to call ‘boiling the frog.’ Instead of just throwing a life sentence at Navalny right out of the gate, they have been systematically giving him additional sentences over the course of many years — this latest sentence, which is coming in at 19 years, being the longest and what I think is the most laughable in terms of what they’re accusing him of.
Earlier: The fate of Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader whose story was told in the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, has become even more grim.
A court...
“It’s very upsetting, but very unsurprising,” Roher tells Deadline. “The regime has taken the approach of what I like to call ‘boiling the frog.’ Instead of just throwing a life sentence at Navalny right out of the gate, they have been systematically giving him additional sentences over the course of many years — this latest sentence, which is coming in at 19 years, being the longest and what I think is the most laughable in terms of what they’re accusing him of.
Earlier: The fate of Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader whose story was told in the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, has become even more grim.
A court...
- 8/4/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Dmitry Androsov, a 31-year-old Russian leader of the opposition party, tells Rolling Stone his recent interrogation by the Russian police turned violent. He says he was hauled into the stuffy Izmailovo police station in Moscow and was grilled by the police for hours. A Russian police officer wore a black mask, black turtleneck sweater, and an unholstered gun, stuck through a belt on his hip, loomed over Androsov, demanding he sign a two-page police protocol that included accusations of violating five administrative and criminal laws. By signing the document, Androsov...
- 5/31/2022
- by Anna Nemtsova
- Rollingstone.com
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