Kremlin announced today that the award Oscar Awarded for a documentary film about the poisoning of a Russian dissident Alexey Navalny and his imprisonment after his return to Moscow in 2021 is evidence of “politicization” on his part. Hollywood.

Navalny, who won an Oscar for Best Documentary on Sunday, shows a Kremlin critic recovering in Germany after being poisoned with a nerve agent in Siberia in 2020 and working with investigative website Bellingcat to find those responsible.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he had not seen the film, but nevertheless “I would venture to suggest that there is clearly some element of politicization of the issue here.”

Politics in Hollywood are known, he said, “but I can’t speak to the cinematic value of this movie because I’m not an insider.”

In the film, Navalny accused a group of Russian FSB officers of poisoning. Russia denies any attempt on his life.

Putin’s “headache”.

Navalny has long been a headache for President Vladimir Putin, who avoided mentioning him publicly. He is in a maximum security prison and is serving an 11.5-year sentence for contempt of court and fraud. According to him, the accusations are designed to silence him.

During the Oscars, along with Canadian film director Daniel Roer, Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of 46-year-old Navalny, complained that “my husband is in prison because he told the truth (…) because he defended democracy.” and added: “Alexei, I dream of the day when you will find your freedom, when our country will regain its freedom. Be strong, my love.”

The CNN Films/HBO Max film competed with documentaries All That Breathes, All Beauty and Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and House of Pieces.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}