Jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on Wednesday praised individuals who get up in opposition to dictatorship and conflict, whereas thanking the workforce that made an Oscar-winning movie about his 2020 poisoning.
The film that gained the very best documentary function award on the Oscars ceremony, retraces Navalny’s political rise, his poisoning which he blames on the Kremlin, and his subsequent arrest.
“I dedicate my entire contribution to this film to honest and courageous people across the world who day after day find the strength to confront the monster of dictatorship and its constant companion, war,” Navalny mentioned on Twitter.
“I am, of course, terribly glad, but while rejoicing, I try not to forget that it wasn’t me who won the Oscar,” he mentioned.
He thanked the workforce who made the film inlcuding Canadian director Daniel Roher, Navalny’s long-time ally Maria Pevchikh and Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev
Navalny additionally thanked his spouse Yulia, who was in Hollywood for the Oscars ceremony on Sunday.
He was arrested in January 2021 upon coming back from Germany, the place he had recovered from the notorious poison assault.
The 46-year-old discovered concerning the movie prize from his lawyer, who instructed him by way of video-link throughout a courtroom case.
“I had a very strange feeling at that moment,” Navalny mentioned.
“It was as if those words didn’t even belong in this world, but, on the other hand, everything here is so weird and crazy that it feels like that’s the only world they belong in.”
Navalny has ceaselessly criticised the Ukraine offensive from jail and referred to as on Russians to protest.
Recently, he referred to as for the respect of Ukraine’s borders of 1991, which embody the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Asked concerning the award, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Hollywood “politicises” the cinema trade.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
