Navalny (2022) - full transcript

Rolling.

We're rolling, Daniel.

OK, we're going, guys?

Yeah.

OK, 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 thriller 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.

SOME CHEERS.

CLAMOURING VOICES.

Are you not scared, Alexei?

What do you expect in Moscow?



CROWD CHANT "NAVALNY".

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

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 out to 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, I have to kind of organize
people.

I was banned from everything -
television, banned, newspapers,

blacklisted, rallies, forbidden.

I realised I can do a lot on my own
with the support of my wife, Yulia.

Just a 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 splashed a toxic liquid into my
face and my first

thought was, "Jesus, I will be kind
of a 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
a 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.

Clapper!

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,

"Why is nobody here?"

"Why is there kind of..."

I even have this strange feeling
like,

like a lack of respect.

Like, seriously?

I'm here and where is my police?

He whole trip was the smoothest trip
I ever had in the 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 was 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

that there were no poisons found in
his blood or other

biological materials,

he has a metabolic disorder,
lowering of blood sugar

levels to be specific.

We're hearing state agencies here
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 and
kill an opposition figure?

The main opposition figure?

I was sceptical.

I thought, maybe it's one of the
many oligarchs on whose feed

is...

Either it's a state ordered attack
or it is somebody

who is trying to assassinate
opposition figures in order

to at least Putin.

The closest anyone has 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 of
it will disappear.

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

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

for people's whose death will be in
the public

scrutiny, such as Navalny.

There was a lot of pressure for us
to start investigating.

Our media department in Russia who
reached out

to us and said, "can you help?"

We looked at them and we thought
there's no hope in hell that we can

investigate 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
are trying to out how to help.

We in Berlin are a small team.

We had to dive into actually getting
things done.

We all were very sceptical 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

security footage with us.

They'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 into the 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.

It's like, he's back.

This is Alexei.

Putin's supposed to be, like, not so
stupid to use this Novichok.

His wording.

His expletive.

His indignation.

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 lock?

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 organisation of
digital nerds most of us

with almost a little bit of
autistic-like fascination

with numbers.

Every time you use your email,

you make a phone call, you make a
doctor's appointment,

take a plane or a train, any time
you used the ATM.

Every time you actually look at the
screen of your phone.

That leaves a trace.

In a place like Russia, imagine the
person who works

at the travel agency that has access
to the flight manifests.

They're getting like, what, $25 a
day as a salary,

and then for another $25 they would
be able to sell

that flight manifest to anybody who
asks for it,

just because it'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 probably spent
$2-3,000.

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.

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 always wondered 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 criticised him on Twitter.

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

in the early days of his career.

He walked side by side with some
pretty nasty

nationalists and racists.

Had he moved beyond that?

Had he actually become a reverse
dark knight?

Alexei Navalny!

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.

If it is a foreign journalist, they
are asking about the international.

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 are a
different category that

you would not want to associate with
or march beside.

Well, in the normal world, in the
normal, political system,

of course, I would never be within
the same political

party with them.

But we are creating coalition,
broader coalition

to fight their regime.

Just to achieve the situation where
everyone can

participate in election.

A lot of politicians woulf even be
uncomfortable to be associating

or being in the same photograph as
one of these guys.

You're comfortable with that?

I'm OK with that and I consider it's
my political superpower,

I can talk to everyone.

Anyway, well, they are citizen of
Russian Federation

and if I want to fight Putin if I
want to be a leader

of a country I cannot just ignore
the huge part of it.

There are a lot of people who call
themselves nationalists.

OK, let's discuss it.

We're living in a country where they
are poisoning

a politician and killing people.

And arresting people for nothing.

Of course, I am totally fine to sit
with a guy

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 was
only manufactured

in this facility called the Signal
Institute.

The Signal Institute in Moscow works
under the guise of a RNB 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 was 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 Alexei, doctor from FSB.

Well, that was interesting.

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 Alexei
Alexandro who owns a car

and this number was listed for
contacting this 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 shortlist of
interesting people.

And these became our prime suspects.

Now, we knew when Navalny had
travelled 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 in

which he arrived there.

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

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 went out of the hospital, I
decided to move into 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 the routine of our walk.

Come here, my little pony.

Isn't he sweet?

Better than your donkey.

Everybody likes the small pony, it's
like usual.

You're scaring him.

Go away.

Aw, you poor guy.

Donkey, hi.

Of course, you like me.

Come on, my mighty horse.

Come here.

More carrot.

You'll grow big.

They are cute, but they are not very
smart.

So, they decided for their fence not
to provide electricity.

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 OK.

It belongs to I don't know.

How do you know?

Because it's open place.

This is a very Russian style,

you know, of thinking about
property, like it

belongs 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 works

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 nice and very kind
Bulgarian nerd with a laptop.

Major tell me if you recognise any
of the people in the 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 of 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 media

so that is validated by more than
just us.

So, CNN and Spiegal are fine with
you?

Yeah.

Absolutely.

That means 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 are going to drop the
bombshell simultaneously.

It's a huge debate as to whether
this was intended

to incapacitate or kill.

I would say kill, 100% kill.

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 you
get at least one

lethal dose into the body.

Tomorrow we'll set up a phone with
fake ID.

So if we can call them through this
number we can try to prank them.

Yes, of course.

Navalny will call personally these
boys one by one

and we will record this.

Hi, this is Navalny.

You may remember me from trying to
kill me.

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 maybe these non-military guys.

When you were a kid, did you have
any political awareness?

Was it a political family?

Did your family talk about politics?

Yes, my family talks about politics
all the time and it was very,

They start talk much more after
Chernobyl disaster

because my father and his family,

they are from Chernobyl, from the
small village

two kilometres away.

And, I would say, ten 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

and plant potatoes just to prevent
rumours, just to explain population

that everything is fine.

Everything is OK!

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 leader 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 video,

because you need some balancing
here,

I'm very bad in it.

I think he wants to make sure this
hits home in Russian media.

I mean, I think that's based on if
he does it.

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 considers himself

half a journalist.

If

That's a very unusual situation that
doesn't make things easier.

Mum, is this yours?

no, you have water.

Hold my beer while I make a TikTok.

No, no, no.

Just the second one you just are
filming me

and I must be horizontal.

MUSIC: How Bizarre.

Hold on.

Again.

You should remove second one.

Oh, we can do that?

Yes, of course.

This is, you know...

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

You know that Christo call it
Moscow4.

Uh, you know what is Moscow4?

No.

What is that?

Well, their email of their very top
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 well 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, could you take my phone and
be in the kitchen and pretend

you're General Bogdanov.

OK.

Super.

Super.

Tomorrow we will make these calls.

Honestly, I don't think it will work
because FSB guys.

They supposed to be resistant to
pranks.

But Moscow4, Moscow4.

Ah, yes, and then we arrange to push
the button and everything will be

published exactly at 12.

And also, I will publish my TikTok I
recorded today.

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

OK, see you tomorrow!

Hello.

Now I totally feel like I am a
undercover

agent with the wired up.

Are you not nervous?

Sorry?

Are you nervous?

No.

Please, come on.

A little bit.

He hung up.

Oh, my God, you ruined their day.

Not just today, I guess.

He hung up.

Maybe try the prank way?

OK.

That was a freaking scared guy.

He recognised your voice?

Yep, yep.

Mikhail's not stupid.

I really think a scientist might
talk to you.

1% chance.

OK.

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

How could you do this?

Yes, yes, yes.

So, now we know everything like
Moscow4.

Oh my locking 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, literally.

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

They will definitely kill him.

Poor Kudryavtsev.

Poor Kudryavtsev, yes.

He's a dead man.

Let's offer him to defect.

Let's arrange for him the whole
thing.

Seriously.

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

He will be in a ditch by tomorrow.

They'll just kill him.

No, no, no.

They will kill him.

OK, well Spiegel has been begging me
to call them since the morning

Can I tell them this already?

Confidentially?

Let's just decide.

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.

Seventeenth.

Christo, before pushing this button,
I want to say

that was amazing job.

Thank you everyone for your
contribution, guys.

Yeah!

High-five.

Now, an exclusive investigation can
reveal a top secret mission.

An elite team of operatives have
been tracking Navalny's every move

for more than three years.

Oh, thank you so much.

It's an honour for me to be on such
a big television of Spain and I'm

very pleased 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.

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 and I'm
with CNN.

Can I ask you a couple of questions?

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 this, you know, group
of killers exist in Russia.

I don't want Putin being president.

I don't want him being tsar.

So I want to go back and try to
change it.

So, this is fantastic piece.

He opened his mouth to American
songs.

On TikTok.

They are lying.

This is crazy stuff, huh.

Crazy, funny stuff like, who's he?

But think about it, they're talking
about this all the time.

They talk about you.

This is very funny.

But the main point is they have a
big problem otherwise

they would not launch it.

Right, right.

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.

No, no.

She plays chess better than all
others in our family.

Better than everyone in our family
and because of this

series Queen's Gambit, she's
demanding that

everyone should play chess.

But nobody is playing.

That is why I'm playing with the
phone.

Well, 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.

Starting from 13 years old, I would
think about, what would I do

if my dad was killed?

Whenever I had, like, the talk, it's
not

anything you can sit at the table
and discuss.

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

so much snow before you go to LA,
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 favourite, favourite answer for
everything is CIA.

Great, great, great, great, great.

Because this is just amazing pass to
us.

Now, we can uphold, because he said,
well,

if we want to poison him, of course,
we would

have poisoned him.

So, 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.

Because nothing like that's ever
happened to anyone.

OK, The Insider is up.

Oh, that's totally unbelievable.

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

300.

300,000 views for 20 minutes.

One hour later.

1 million views.

The poisoning of 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

Kudryavstev, 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,

which is probably how all of this
should probably be treated.

How is President Navalny different
than President Putin?

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

this damn circle of really
over-established

authoritarian regime.

In authoritarian country, you either
with an authoritarian leader

or against an authoritarian leader.

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

freedom of speech, fair election.

The tax money is supposed to belong
to the local

communities and, in Russia,
everything is decided in Moscow.

So, being a president just having
this, you know, big pie

of my power and I will cut it for
the future of Russia.

I apologise, I am sorry for the
record that five minutes ago

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

I apologise for that, because well,
well everything

is like, everything is happening in
the last ten minutes and I have

to make like a millions of emails.

And...

Leonid have a seat.

Maria have a seat.

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

Sorry, I have to sit.

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

Dear citizens, please leave the
area.

Only ticked passengers allowed.

Since Navalny decided to come back,
we have to greet him

because he is now the symbol of
Russia's freedom.

In a few minutes, we will begin our
final descent.

Alexei, a comment please.

Alexei will not be making any
comments now.

Hello, may I take a selfie?

The anti-why police showed up and
are just arresting everybody,

including journalists live on the
air.

This is crazy.

Jesus.

I've never seen anything like this.

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

I don't think they will let him come
close 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.

They realised it's not possible to
control the crowd

and they chicked out.

White Max

Chanting.

CHANTING.

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 that I
am killed, is very

simple - not give up.

Do me a favour, answer this one in
Russian.