All language subtitles for Navalny (2022) (1080p HMAX WEB-DL x265 Silence)

-Rolling.
-We're rolling on him.

Okay. We're going, guys?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

Okay, so, Alexei,
I want to talk about something

that we sort of touched
on this morning.

And you might hate this,

but I really want you
to think about it.

If you are killed,
if this does happen,

what message
do you leave behind

to the Russian people?

Oh, come on, Daniel.

No.
No way.

It's like you're making a movie
for the case of my death.

Like, again, I'm ready
to answer your question,

but please let it be
another movie.

Movie number two.

Like, let's make a trailer
out of this movie,

and in the case
I would be killed,

let's make
a boring movie of memory.

Alexei Navalny is stepping back

into another showdown
with the Kremlin.

What to do with Navalny

presents a conundrum
for the Kremlin.

Let him go and risk
looking weak or lock him up

knowing it could turn him
into a political martyr.

Hi.

Are you not scared,
Alexei?

What do you expect
in Moscow?

Unexpectedly,

Vladimir Putin
has a genuine challenger.

A handsome 41-year-old lawyer,
Alexei Navalny,

who has chosen one of the most
dangerous occupations

in the world --

running against the man
who controls the Kremlin.

More than any other
opposition figure in Russia,

Alexei Navalny gets
ordinary people active protest.

If I want to fight Putin,

if I want to be
a leader of a country,

I have to do something
practical about it.

Well, uh, I have to kind
of organize people.

I was banned from everything.

Television, banned.

Newspapers, blacklisted.

Rallies, forbidden.

I realized,
I can do a lot on my own

with the support
of my wife, Yulia.

Just small group of people,
I can rely on.

Zero money, a lot of work.

Internet and that's it.

His youngest fans
have turned to TikTok,

which has been crucial
in spreading the word.

Navalny's
posted hundreds of videos

about his
corruption investigations,

and they're wildly popular.

The Kremlin hates Navalny
so much

that they literally refuse
to say his name.

Our office was raided,

and they just confiscated
everything.

Everything.

They splash a toxic liquid
to my face

and my first
thought was "Jesus.

I will be some kind of monster
until the end of my days."

As I became more and more
famous guy,

I was totally sure that my life
became safer and safer

because I am kind of famous guy.

And it would be problematic
for them just to kill me.

And, boy,
were you wrong.

Yes. I was very wrong.

So, we went to Siberia

to make a nice movie
about local corruption.

I expected a lot of police.

I expected a lot of people
who'd try to prevent

our filming,
confiscate our cameras

or just break our cameras
or try to beat us.

I expected that sort of things,
and I was very surprised like,

"Hmm, why is nobody here?

Why is there kind of --"

I even -- I even have
this strange feeling

like a --
like a lack of respect.

"Seriously?

I'm here,
and where is my police?"

The whole trip was
the smoothest trip

I ever had in regions.

I am a kind of slave
of Thursdays,

because on Thursday,
I have my online YouTube show.

And then weekend, I can spend
with my family

before another trip
to another region.

I was going home and then...

I died.

Passengers on his flight
from Siberia

heard Alexei Navalny
cry out in agony.

Other passengers filming
just after the plane

makes an emergency
landing in Siberia.

Navalny then rushed
to the hospital

where he was
put on a ventilator.

His spokeswoman saying
Navalny was poisoned.

His wife raced to be
by his side.

We've come to the conclusion

that judging by the fact

there were no poisons
found in his blood

or no other
biological materials,

he has a metabolic disorder,

lowering of blood sugar levels
to be specific.

We're hearing state news
agencies here that are backed

by the Kremlin suggesting
that hallucinogenic drugs

may be involved
but not poisoning.

This morning,
an air ambulance

from a German charity landed.

We have to make sure

his condition
is completely stable.

We cannot transfer him
in this state

even if his family
have consented to it.

The moment when I heard the news

that Navalny was poisoned,

my first thought was,
"Can this be the Kremlin?

Would they be so dumb to try
to kill an opposition figure?

The main opposition figure?"

I was skeptical.
I thought, "Hmm.

Maybe it's one
of the many oligarchs

on whose feet he has stepped.

Either it's
a state-ordered attack

or it is somebody
who is trying

to assassinate
opposition figures

in order to appease Putin."

The closest anyone's come

to tracing a poisoning
to Vladimir Putin --

The 2018 attack
in Salisbury, England.

A defiant Kremlin
insisting again

that he had nothing to do with
the brazen assassination attempt

of former Russian spy
Sergei Skripal.

Skripal was poisoned

by the military-grade
nerve agent Novichok.

The insidiousness
of Novichok is that

it actually starts switching off
your nerve connectors

in your body one-by-one.

If it's dosed properly, it will
just turn you off as a body.

But then within hours,
any trace, it will disappear.

So it will always, forever look
like it was a natural death.

And this is why it appears to be
the preferred form of killing

for people whose death will be
under public scrutiny,

such as Navalny.

There was a lot of pressure
for us

to start investigating.

Media departments in Russia
reached out to us

and said, "Can you help?"

We looked at it, and we thought,
"There's no hope in hell

we can investigate a crime
that happened in Russia

in the remote corners
of Siberia,

sitting here
comfortably in Europe."

We didn't even try
in the beginning.

Alexei Navalny arrives
at this hospital in Berlin

with his wife, Yulia.

A spokesperson tweeted,
"The struggle for Alexei's life

and health is just beginning.

Here at the hospital,
both inside and out,

he'll be watched."

To have your dad,

an opposition leader
being poisoned

by we don't know what,

we don't know how,
we don't know when,

and just be
in a random hospital.

It was just...

It was surreal.
It was literally like a book.

Hello.

The doctors assured
they can't say anything

about his brain

to which extent he will recover

even if they manage
to wake him up.

Many millions
of Navalny supporters

were trying to figure out
how to help.

We, in Berlin, are a small team.

We had to dive into, like,
actually getting things done.

We all were very skeptical

about investigating
Alexei's poisoning.

As opposed to previous cases,

this poisoning took place
on the Russian soil,

so no one is going
to share CCTV footage with us.

We're not going to have
fancy videos

from the airport where
the poisoners fly in and out.

And as much as it hurts
to admit,

while Putin is in power,
we'll never find out the truth.

Yulia, how is
your husband this morning?

It was so crazy, like it's
Putin's signature poison.

We were actually so shocked.

So he didn't just decide
to murder him, but to poison.

And not just to poison,
but exactly Novichok.

This was, like, really, like,

leaving his signature
on the crime scene.

When you come to a room
of a comatose patient,

you are starting
to just tell him the news.

Telling him his story.

"Alexei, don't worry.
You were poisoned.

There was a murder attempt.

Putin tried to kill you
with Novichok."

And he opened his, like,
blue eyes wide

and looked at me
and said, very clear...

"Oh, come on. Poisoned?
I don't believe it."

Like, he's back.
This is Alexei.

Putin's supposed to be
not so stupid

to use this Novichok.

His wording, his expletive,
his intonation.

If you want to kill someone,
just shoot him.

Jesus Christ.

Like, real Alexei.

It's impossible to believe it.

It's kind of stupid.

The whole idea of poisoning

with a chemical weapon,
what the fuck?

This is why this is so smart,
because even reasonable people,

they refuse
to believe like, "What?

Come on. Poisoned?

Seriously?"

Traditional journalism

implies you meeting
with a source

and that source
telling you a story.

In today's world of fake news,
we don't trust sources

because we don't trust humans.

We trust data.

Bellingcat is an organization
of digital nerds,

most of us with a little bit

of almost autistic-like
fascination with numbers.

Every time you use your e-mail,
you make a phone call,

make a doctor's appointment,
take a plane or a train,

any time you use the ATM,

every time you actually look
at the screen of your phone,

that leaves a trace.

In place like Russia,

imagine the person who works
at a travel agency

that has access
to the flight manifests,

they're getting, what,
25 bucks a day as a salary.

And then for another $25,

they will be able to sell
that flight manifest

to anybody who asks for it,

just because they'll double
their income for the day.

This is a whole industry.

Data brokers are
on the dark web.

You negotiate the price and
within a few minutes, they say,

"Yep, I can get that data
for you by tomorrow."

And then you have
to send Bitcoin.

Now, Bellingcat can't pay
for that data

because it's a foundation,

so I have to pay
for that data myself.

Over the last five years of me
working on data journalism,

I would say I've spent $150,000.

My wife has no idea about this.

My wife suspects I've spent
probably $2,000 or $3,000.

If she knew the real quantum,
she wouldn't be my wife.

But she's gonna
watch the movie.

She's not watching this movie.

I'm absolutely sure she's not
watching this movie now.

Wheeeee!

Our expectation was

once he's released
from intensive care,

he will have a desire
to go to Russia immediately.

To our great relief,
he told me,

"I better spend
several months here.

I want to go back to Russia
strong and fully recovered."

For the longest time,

I wasn't sure
what to make of Navalny.

I had always wondered how much
of an independent figure he is

or is he one of the many
fake opposition figure

created by the Kremlin.

I've criticized him on Twitter.

I mean, he was known for having
flirted with the extreme right

in the early days
of his career.

He'd walked side-by-side

with some pretty nasty
nationalists and racists.

Had he moved beyond that?

Had he actually become
a reverse dark knight?

Within all my career,

I've been asked the same
15 questions all the time.

Are you afraid?

Are you working for Kremlin?

What is your family doing?

You have a responsibility
for your family.

When if it's, foreign --
foreign, uh, journalist,

they're asking about
nationalism and Russian March.

And every one of them,
Jesus Christ,

just watch previous interviews.

Hold on.
Were there not

a couple of Sieg Heil-ers
at that thing?

Sorry?

Were there not a couple
of Nazi guys at that march?

Certainly a Sieg Heil-ers
would be a different category

that you would not
want to associate with
or march beside.

Well, in the normal world,

in the normal, uh, political
system, of course,

I would never be within the same
political party with them.

But we are creating coalition,

broader coalition
to fight the regime

just to achieve the situation

where everyone
can participate in election.

'Cause a lot of politicians
would be uncomfortable

even associating or being
in the same photograph

as one of these guys.

You're comfortable
with that?

I'm okay with that,
and I'm --

I consider it's --
it's my political superpower,

I can talk to everyone.

Anyway, well, they, uh, are
citizen of Russian federation

and if I want to fight Putin,

if I want to be a leader
of a country,

I can-- I cannot just ignore
the huge part of it.

Well, there are a lot of people

who call themselves
nationalists.

Okay, let's discuss it.

We're living in the country

when they are poisoning
a politician and killing people.

And, uh,
arresting people for nothing.

Uh, so, of course,
I am totally fine

to sit with a guy
whose, uh, whose rally

looks kind of not
very good for me.

The Russian media
didn't find anything,

and German investigators
didn't have the jurisdiction.

So we realized, "There's nobody
who's actually going

to actively investigate this
unless we jump into this."

We knew that the poison
was Novichok

and Novichok, we had proven
in the previous investigation,

is only manufactured
in this facility

called the Signal Institute.

The Signal Institute in Moscow

works under the guise
of a R&D center

that develops advanced forms
of sports, nutrition drinks.

That's the legend.

Yet, they employ,
for this work,

12 scientists whose only
experience and background

is in chemical weapons.

Our hypothesis --
this is the entity

that actually provides
the poison for the killers

who travel around the world
poisoning people with Novichok.

So what we did is we bought from
the Russian black market

the phone records for the head
of the Signal Institute.

We looked at numbers
that only appear

just before
the poisoning of Navalny,

and those were suspicious.

But once we have
a suspicious number,

you go through a number
of Russian apps

that allow you to see
how that phone number is listed

in other people's phonebooks.

So, for example,
I put in my number

and it will show up as Christo
the journalist from Bellingcat,

because somebody would have put
my name into their phonebook

and that description would have
been shared into this app.

First number I looked up,

showed up as
"Alexey doctor from FSB."

Well, that was interesting.
A doctor from FSB?

Alexey?
But that was not enough.

We couldn't place a real person
behind this name.

Then, I would look up
if this number showed up

in any car-registration
databases.

And we found an actual
Alexey Alexandrov who owns a car

and this number was listed
for contacting that person.

So, then you have a real person
with a birthday.

Then, you look up
his passport file,

you see his face.

You repeat that many times with
the other suspicious numbers,

and then you have a short list
of interesting people.

And these became
our prime suspects.

Now, we knew when Navalny
had traveled to Siberia.

We had the actual
passenger manifests

of six different flights
that had flown into Novosibirsk

where Navalny flew from Moscow
on the day before,

during, and after the day
on which he arrived there.

So, we needed to see if any
of those suspicious people

traveled to Siberia
at the time of the poisoning,

and we found an overlap.

We found a nest of wasps
we didn't know existed.

It's a domestic assassination
machine on an industrial scale.

I was absolutely shocked
that this was so fast

and the whole plot
disentangled so quickly,

so I just reached out by Twitter
and said, "Alexei,

I think we may have found
who poisoned you."

After I had went out
of the hospital,

I decided to move
to Black Forest

and live in some small village.

You can just walk for hours
and not meet any person at all.

These are my German friends,
actually.

The little pony is my friend
and donkey is Yulia's friend.

And this is, uh,
routine of our walk.

Come here, my little pony.

Isn't he sweet?

Better than your donkey.

Everybody like
the small pony.

It's like usual.

But donkey is like...

You're scaring him.
Go away.

Go away.

Aw, you poor guy.

Donkey, hi.
Of course, you like me.

Oh, come on.

This is a very
irritable woman.

Come on,
my mighty horse.

Come here.
More carrot.

You grow big.

They are cute,
but they are not very smart.

So, they decided,

for their fence,
not to provide electricity.

Stop. Do it.

Ahhh.

Yulia want an apple

and asked me
to take it.

But it's Germany,
so it's someone's apple.

And there is a police
over there.

I'll come there when
it will be dark.

And no police.

So, you're
a Russian criminal

who arrived to Germany?

No, it's, like --
It's okay.

It belongs to,
I don't know.

How do you know? How do you know
that it belonged --

Because it's open place.

There's no anything,
which...

This is a very Russian style,

you know, of thinking
about property.

Like,
it belong to everyone,

because
it's an open place.

Just come and get it.

The story of this guy

who lives in Vienna
but is Bulgarian

but worked in Russia and that
he has all of his own money

and he spends it all
on investigations

in Russian crimes.

He just sounded too suspicious.

Too good to be true.

Too...capable?

He sounded a bit, you know,
made up.

Are you confident

that he is not
MI6 or CIA?

I'm pretty confident.
I wouldn't say I rule it out,

but I'm pretty confident
that he's not.

I was suspicious
about this guy from Twitter.

I just saw his old laptop

and all these tables with data.

Turns out, and I was
very surprised,

that the whole thing
about Bellingcat

is just one smart guy,
no CIA involved, no MI6.

He's just a-a nice
and very kind

Bulgarian nerd with a laptop.

I will show you
photographs.

Tell me if you recognize
any of the people

in those photographs.

Getting through
emotionally to Alexei

was a piece of cake.

Took literally an hour.

Getting through to Maria
took much longer.

She was very tough.
She never smiled.

She was the one vetting me,
whether I am a spy or not.

But we needed information

that only his team
would be privy to.

So we found a very
workable arrangement,

which was completely ethical
and acceptable to us.

We agreed that Maria Pevchikh
would be working

as part of our team

and she would not be
sharing with Alexei

all the information
in real time

so that we wouldn't
be influenced

by the bias of the victim.

When we discovered
this clandestine operation,

it was so shocking that even
to us, it looked unbelievable.

I mean, come on.

The government is paying a whole
team of 20-plus people

whose only job is
to poison other Russians?

That sounds improbable.

So we needed other journalists
to look at it.

I would like to share
the limelight

with some global medias

so that is validated
by more than just us.

So, CNN and Spiegel
are fine with you?

-Yeah. Absolutely.
-Okay.

That means that we need to film
exactly like a week from now,

maybe, like...

We had a nightmare

trying to get everybody to stick
to the same time.

It's all timed
for a simultaneous release.

All the media channels

are going to drop the bombshell
simultaneously.

There's a huge debate
as to whether

this was intended
to incapacitate or kill.

Incapacitate or kill?

Yeah.

If, for example,

Navalny had laundry
returned to him

while he was staying
at the Tomsk Hotel

the afternoon
before he left...

...would that be
a point of access?

It's definitely a possibility.

The question is how well you
can dose the agent that way.

You put, let's say, 10 times

the deadly dose
on the clothing.

You must be sure, however,
that at least

one lethal dose
gets into the body.

Tomorrow we'll set up a phone
with fake I.D.

So if we can call them
through this number...

We pretend
to be someone else.

...we can try
to prank them.

Yes, of course.

Navalny will call
personally these poisoners,

one by one,
and we will record this.

Hi, this is Navalny.

You may remember me
from trying to kill me.

Alexei,
great to see you.

Thank you very much
for coming.

Is it your contention
that Vladimir Putin

must have been
aware of this?

Of course, 100%.

It could have not
happened without...

Who's the most stupid?

Most stupid of them?

Well, definitely

these are Spetsnaz guys
with no real training.

I think it makes sense to try
to prank stupid guys

and, uh, maybe
these non-military guys.

When you were a kid,

did you have
any political awareness?

Was this
a political family?

Did your family talk
about politics?

Yes, my family talks
about politics all the time

and it was very, uh...

They start to talk much more
after Chernobyl disaster.

Because actually,
my father and his family,

they are from Chernobyl,

from the small village
2 kilometers away.

And, I would say, 10 kilometers
away from the nuclear station.

Everyone knows that there was
an explosion

of a nuclear station,
but news keeping silence

and so all this nuclear
and radioactive dust

was on these fields
and they were forced to go

to plant potatoes
just to prevent rumors,

just to explain population
that everything is fine.

Everything is okay!
Go and work in the fields!

And with the first appearance
of Putin on the screen,

I just felt it.

I have this same feeling
like I am watching TV

and I am watching
political lizard

and he's looking into my eyes
and lying to me.

This is the biggest
challenge for me.

I tried to practice juggling
about a month

and because of coordination
and balancing,

because you need
some balance here, it's...

I'm very bad in it.

I think
he wants to make sure

this hits home in Russian media.

And he thinks that's best done
if he does it.

One more time.

So, we're not being journalists
reporting about some politician,

but we're reporting
about a politician

who has his own YouTube show
with over 13 million followers

and who considers himself
half a journalist.

Ahh!

Yeah!

Actually, this first time
you're lucky.

That's a very unusual situation,

and it doesn't
make things easier.

Mom, is this yours?

No, you had water.

Hold my beer
while I making a TikTok.

No, no, no.

Just the second one,
you just are filming me

with him and I'm asking,
"How bizarre?"

Okay.

Ho. Again.

You should remove
second one.

Oh, we can do that?

Yes, of course.

This is, you know...

I don't know how --
I don't know how to do that.

Who's 19?

You know that Christo call it,
"Moscow4."

Uh, you know
what is Moscow4?

No.
What is that?

Well, the e-mail of the very
top-brass guy from intelligence

was hacked several times

and his first password
was Moscow1 and they hacked him.

So second his password
was Moscow2,

and they hacked him as well.

And so the third time,
he had passcode Moscow3.

And just guess what was
his fourth password.

So Moscow4 is the explanation
of the stupidity of the system.

Dasha, you take my phone

and you'll be in the kitchen

pretending
you're General Bogdanov.

Could I see the...

I have no idea.

Okay, well, super, super.

Tomorrow we will
make these calls.

Honestly, I don't think
it will work,

because, well, FSB guys.

They supposed to be
resistant to pranks.

Uh, but Moscow4.

Moscow4.

Ah, yes, and then we arrange
to push the button

and everything will be
published exactly at 12:00.

And also,
I will publish my TikTok

I recorded today.

And we'll have a kind of 15
minutes of shame with it.

Okay, see you tomorrow!

Hello.

Now, I totally feel like
I am undercover agent

with the wired up.

Are you nervous?

Sorry?

No.

A little bit.

Hello.

He hung up.

Oh, my God,
you ruined their day.

Not just today, I guess.

Hello.

Hung up.

Maybe try it
the prank way.

Okay.

Hello.

He hung up.

That was
a freaking scared guy.

He recognized your voice?

Muscle is not stupid.

I really think a scientist
might talk to you.

1% chance.

Let's -- let's try to reach
some scientists.

Kudryavtsev's interesting.

Hello.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Now we got everything, yes.

How could you do this?!
How could you do this?

So, now we know
everything like...

Moscow4.

Oh, my fucking God.

Actually, he's not a muscle.

He's a chemist.
He's a chemist.

Yes.

He spilled
the whole story.

This is unbelievable.

Poor guy.

They will kill him.
They will kill him.

They will kill him,
literally.

I think you'll be president,
seriously, after this.

They will
definitely kill him.

Poor Kudryavtsev.

Poor Kudryavtsev, yes.

Let's offer him
to defect.

Let's arrange for him
the whole thing.

Seriously.

'Cause I think that's
a humanitarian thing to do.

He will be in a ditch
by tomorrow.

They'll just kill him.

They will kill him.
They will kill him.

Okay, well, Spiegel
has been begging me

to call them
since the morning.

Can I tell them
this already?

Confidentially?

Are we going to publish
this conversation?

Yeah.

Because I think
we should wait for a --

Putin's press conference,
at the very least.

Sorry?

To Putin's press conference,
at the very least.

It is on Wednesday
or Thursday?

Thursday.

Christo, before
pushing this button,

I want to say
that was amazing job.

Thank you everyone
for your contribution, guys.

Yeah!

High-five.

Okay, good.

Good, good, good, good.
Let's go.

Now an exclusive
investigation can reveal

a top-secret mission...

An elite team
of operatives

has been tracking
Navalny's every move

for more than three years.

Oh, thank you very much.

It's an honor for me to be on
such a big television of Spain

and I'm very pleased

that you are paying attention
to this situation.

So, thank you very much.

This scheme which looks like
it's from the movies,

but in this particular case,
it's a real scheme

with real people.

Putin on the very top.

In mid-August, Navalny and
his team traveled to Siberia.

At least five members
of the FSB unit

make the same journey
on different flights.

Well, they can't be
tailing him now,

but of course,
I'm sure they're trying to.

Thank you.
Thank you very much.

Back in Tomsk, there was a surge
in communications

among the FSB unit
and their bosses.

If it was expected that
Navalny would die on the flight,

they were now scrambling to deal
with a very different situation.

We enter a rundown
apartment building

on the outskirts of Moscow

where operative
Oleg Tayakin lives.

My name is Clarissa Ward.
I work for CNN.

Can I ask you
a couple of questions?

Was it your team that...

So, you've said that you want
to go back to Russia?

You're aware of the risks
of going back?

-Definitely.
-Why do you want to go back?

I don't want these, you know,

group of killers exist
in Russia.

I don't want Putin
being president.

I don't want him
being czar of Russia.

I want to go back
and try to change it.

Fantastic piece.
-Yeah.

-The dream team.
-Absolutely.

-Cheers.
-Cheers.

"He opened his mouth
to American songs."

On TikTok.

They are lying.

Yeah, crazy stuff, huh?

Crazy, funny stuff like...

Who's he?

But think about it,

they're talking about this
all the time.

They're talking
about you.

In their version, "Ha-ha-ha,
this is very funny."

But the main point is
they have a big problem.

Otherwise they would
not launch it.

Yep. Right, right, right.

Because, well,
it's first channel.

They allowed the state
number-one channel

that has never mentioned
his name

to only talk
about him now.

Yes, you're absolutely right.
This is a main point.

It's not affordable for them
to keep silence.

Mm-hmm.

She plays chess...

Better than all others
in our family.

...better than everyone
in our family

and because
of this series...

-Queen's Gambit.
-..."Queen's Gambit,"

she's demanding that everyone
should play chess.

But nobody is playing.

That is why I'm playing
with the phone.

I definitely prefer
"Call of Duty."

I definitely prefer chess.

I prefer shopping.

Ready for
a 12-hour flight.

We have to sit down
for good luck.

Yes.

Starting from 13 years old,

I would think about
what would I do...

if my dad was killed?

We never had, like,
thetalk.

You know, it's not --
it's not anything that you can,

like, sit at the table
and discuss.

So, it's nice for you,
Dasha, to see the snow.

So much snow
before you go to L.A., right?

There is snow in California.

There was a point a year ago,
where my dad

was almost not there
for my high school graduation.

He was in jail once again
and, like, the whole day,

I was just thinking about
how my dad would've been...

I'm sorry.

My dad would've been proud
to see me walk on the stage

and get my certificate.

And he wouldn't get that option,

because he was in jail
for doing the right thing.

I know that my dad
misses Russia...

...even though it's scary
to go back.

And if he didn't go back,

I would say, "You need
to go back and fight."

It's something
worth fighting for.

His favorite, favorite
ultimate answer

for everything is CIA.

Great, great, great,
great, great.

Very good.
-Of course.

Because this is just
amazing pass to us.

Now we have a bull,

because he said, like, "Well,
if we want to poison him,

of course,
we would have poisoned him."

So, just -- just --
just we will --

I mean, the whole argumentation,
we will smash it.

I'm just very curious
how people will react to it,

whether they will be as
astonished as we are, hopefully.

'Cause nothing like that's
ever happened to anyone.

Oh, that's totally unbelievable.

I would never believe it
if I wasn't part of it.

Three hundred...

300,000 views for 20 minutes.

One hour later,

1 million views.

Bjork.

Maria. Cool.

The poisoning of Russian
dissident Alexei Navalny

has taken
an even more bizarre turn.

If this was a Hollywood
movie, you would say

it was over the top,
but this is not.

This is real and, boy, does this
conversation punch a giant hole

in the Kremlin's narrative.

Surely, this is hugely
embarrassing for the Kremlin

and for the FSB.

Oh, absolutely.

It's embarrassing
for Mr. Kudryavtsev.

It's embarrassing for the FSB.

It's embarrassing
for the Kremlin.

The FSB has said that
the video of the conversation

posted on Navalny's
YouTube channel was fake

and that the phone call
was a provocation

aimed at discrediting
the agency.

Navalny is suffering from
delusion of persecution.

Otherwise, there's a Freudian
fixation on his own crotch area.

This is probably how
all this should be treated.

How is President Navalny

different
from President Putin?

Well, my major task
as a president just to prevent,

you know,
this damn circle

of re-establish
of authoritarian regime.

In authoritarian country,

you are pro-authoritarian leader

or you're against
authoritarian leader.

So, we are in more primitive
politics like human rights,

freedom of speech,
fair election.

The power and money,
tax money --

they supposed to belong
to the local communities.

And in Russia,
everything decided in Moscow.

So, being a president
and just having this,

you know,
big pie of my power

and I will cut it
for the future of Russia.

I apologize.
I am sorry for the record.

But just five minutes ago,

I told Daniel to get the fuck
out of here with his camera,

so, like, I apologize for that,

because, well, it's --

Everything is, like --

Everything is happening
in the last 10 minutes,

and I have to make, like,
a millions of e-mails.

And, Leonid, have a seat.
Maria, have a seat.

You make me nervous because
you're standing over me, sorry.

Ha ha ha ha.

Sorry, I have to sit.

It's a Russian superstition,
but it's important.

The anti-riot police

just started arresting
everybody,

including journalists,
live on the air.

This is crazy.

Jesus. Jesus.

I've never seen anything
like this.

There's no way they're not
going to arrest him.

I don't think
that they will let him

come to the front.

I think they're going to
yank him away

before anybody else
is let off the plane.

This is the plane
and this is Moscow.

And this is the plane,
and this is Moscow.

It's a hot potato,
really.

They're realized
that it's not possible

to control the crowd,

and they chickened out.

Yulia! Yulia!

Alexei, if you are arrested

and thrown in prison

or the unthinkable happens
and you're killed,

what message
do you leave behind

to the Russian people?

My message,

for the situation
when I am killed

is very simple -- not give up.

Do me a favor,
answer this one in Russian.

Um...