The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has published the shortlist for the 2023 Oscars in 10 categories, including documentaries. The film Navalny, produced by HBO and CNN Films, also made the list.
The film Navalny was shown for the first time on January 26 at the American independent film festival Sundance 2022 in Salt Lake City.
Most of the film consistently tells the story of Navalny's poisoning, which occurred in the summer of 2020, and covers the period up to the detention of the politician at a Moscow airport in January 2021.
On December 14, 2020, The Insider and Belingcat, together with the FBK, published an investigation in which they named the names of the FSB officers who took part in the poisoning of Navalny with the Novichok substance, which the OPCW recognized as a military toxin. Two days later, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the investigation into the attempted assassination of Navalny with the names of current FSB officers "fun reading." Later, Vladimir Putin de facto validated the results of the investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat when he did not deny that the FSB officers mentioned in the article were near Navalny on those very dates.
Also published were the confessions of Konstantin Kudryavtsev, who spoke with Alexei Navalny (thinking that he was talking to Patrushev's assistant) and told many details of the assassination attempt. Among other things, he explained that Navalny's life was saved by the actions of the pilots and atropine administered by the ambulance, and also specified that the poison was applied to his underpants, and the transport police helped the FSB officers to clean up the traces.