Christo Grozev, the investigative journalist featured within the Navalny documentary, has been placed on Russia’s “wished” record.
In response to the Russian Inside Ministry’s web site, by way of CNN, Grozev is “wished beneath an article of the Legal Code,” however doesn’t additional cite the article.
Grozev took to Twitter and mentioned, “I don’t know on what grounds the Kremlin has put me on its ‘wished record’, thus I can not present any feedback presently. In a approach it doesn’t matter – for years they’ve made it clear they’re terrified of our work and would cease at nothing to make it go away.”
Grozev has been reporting about Russian worldwide crimes, together with the poisoning of Alexey Navalny in 2020. The latter is the main focus of the documentary movie Navalny by Daniel Roher the place Grozev is featured. Grozev not too long ago talked to Deadline Contenders Documentary in regards to the movie, particularly, a scene the place Navalny impersonated a Russian official.
“My God, this man’s giving us rather more information than we even had earlier than the start of the cellphone name to someplace halfway via the decision, I used to be beginning to really feel pity for him and sorry,” Grozev mentioned. “I’m considering what have we performed to this killer or one of many killers? After which in direction of the tip, I used to be already form of jaded and considering, ‘OK, I peaked. I’m by no means gonna see something pretty much as good as this in my life. So what else is there to do for the remainder of my life?’”
Navalny additionally not too long ago made the Oscars shortlist for documentary characteristic.