In Memoriam Navalny: Screening of the documentary in Budapest

Navalny follows Russia’s former opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, in the wake of his August 2020 Novichok poisoning as he aggressively works to uncover who was behind his assassination attempt in this gripping documentary thriller.

In August 2020, a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. One of its passengers, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was deathly ill. Taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin, doctors confirmed that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government. President Vladimir Putin immediately cast doubt on the findings and denied any involvement.

While recovering, Navalny and his team — already with a large social media following in tow — partnered with the data investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat as well as other international news organizations to investigate his attempted assassination and find proof of the Kremlin’s involvement.

The film will be shown in the original language, with English and Hungarian subtitles in the Cinema City of Mammut 2.

You can find tickets at the Cinema City online platform, or in person at the Cinema City Mammut cinema. After the film there will be a discussion about Navalny with experts. Participants: Zoltán Sz. Bíró – Russia expert and András Németh journalist HVG.

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