Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands during a break in the hearing on his appeal in a court in Moscow, Russia, 2018. Credit: Pavel Golovkin,AP
The producer of a documentary on Putin's critic who was poisoned in August explains why he found Navalny as great a mystery as the Russian president himself - and how he dealt with the film's director being brutally murdered
In March 2017, tens of thousands of demonstrators attended rallies and went on marches in cities across Russia. They were protesting government corruption in the wake of a damning investigative report published a few weeks earlier by Alexei Navalny. The report exposed the vast wealth of the second most powerful man in Russia, then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and the complex web of sources allegedly funding his estates, yachts and vineyards.
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