The film "Winter, Go Away!" and the driving forces of protest
A scene from the film The Term. Alexei Navalny at a police station after being detained at a rally in support of political prisoners
A scene from the famous documentary The Term, showing Alexei together with Ilya Yashin and Sergei Udaltsov at a police station after being detained at a rally in support of political prisoners in October 2012. It was the height of the Bolotnaya case (the criminal prosecution following the 2012 Bolot
An episode from the documentary Deadline. Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov monitor the Khimki mayoral election
This excerpt from the documentary project Deadline takes us back to October 2012, when the high-profile mayoral election was taking place in Khimki, with environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova among the candidates. In the footage, Alexei, together with Boris Nemtsov, inspects one of the polling s
they broke all the trolleybuses
Mom, can I go shoot outside? — You can, just don’t dance in church.
An episode from the film The Term. Alexei Navalny on double standards: gunfire on Tverskaya Street vs. the Bolotnaya Case
An episode from the documentary project The Term from October 2012, in which Alexei vividly exposes the glaring double standards of Putin’s “justice.” He compares the case of participants in a Dagestani wedding motorcade who opened fire on Tverskaya Street and got away with a fine of 100 rubles, to
An episode from the documentary project Term. Alexei Navalny campaigns in Khimki for Yevgenia Chirikova in the Khimki mayoral election
This archival excerpt from the documentary project Term takes us back to September 2012, when Alexei came to Khimki to support environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova in the mayoral election. Right in the middle of street campaigning, masked Kremlin-backed provocateurs, hiding behind nationalist s
An episode from the film The Term. Navalny, Prilepin, and Shargunov on creating a new media outlet, Echo of Moscow, and the compromises of protest
This unique excerpt from the documentary project The Term, from September 2012, takes us back to the height of the white-ribbon protest movement. In an informal setting, Alexei discusses with writers Zakhar Prilepin and Sergei Shargunov the creation of a new media outlet that could unite the opposit
An episode from the film Deadline. Alexei Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak discuss an article by Zakhar Prilepin
This episode of the documentary project Deadline captures an informal argument between Alexei and Ksenia Sobchak at the height of the 2012 protest movement in Russia. Over lunch, they discuss a controversial article by Zakhar Prilepin. Alexei bluntly calls Stalin an executioner of the Russian people
Twitter day. 30 August 2012
An episode from the film The Term. Alexei Navalny at Russian Flag Day
if you haven’t seen it yet
Twitter day. 13 August 2012
An episode from the film Srok. Alexei Navalny explains his plan: elections to the Opposition Coordinating Council
A fragment from the documentary project Srok from August 2012, in which Alexei explains in detail to his associates his idea of holding elections to the Opposition Coordinating Council. Against the backdrop of the mass protests on Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Avenue in Moscow, a crisis of represent
An episode from the film Term. Alexei Navalny found a bug in the office: a listening device behind the baseboard and an argument with investigators
An episode from the famous documentary project Term, filmed in August 2012, at the height of the crackdown following the Bolotnaya Square protests (anti-government demonstrations in Moscow). In the video, Alexei and his colleagues discover a hidden listening device installed behind the baseboard in
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean no one is watching you.
Twitter day. 3 August 2012
An episode from the film Srok. Alexei Navalny on Bastrykin, residency in the Czech Republic, and the fate of political prisoners
In this excerpt from the documentary project Srok, filmed in July 2012, Alexei talks about his high-profile investigation into Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, who was found to have a residence permit and business interests in the Czech Republic. Against the backdro
An episode from the film The Term. Navalny at a rally on arrests, emigration, and the formula for alcohol
This excerpt from the documentary project The Term takes us back to the protest-filled July of 2012, when the Kremlin was vigorously setting the machinery of repression in motion in connection with the Bolotnaya case (the criminal case following the 2012 Bolotnaya Square protest in Moscow). Right at
Twitter day. 18 July 2012
Twitter day. 17 July 2012
About the searches and the rally
An episode from the documentary The Term. Alexei Navalny on the search of the ACF office: “They found 570 rubles”
This excerpt from the documentary project The Term captures Alexei in June 2012, at the height of a large wave of searches targeting opposition leaders after the Bolotnaya Square protests (anti-government demonstrations in Moscow). With his characteristic irony, Alexei describes the results of the s
An episode from the film The Term. A search of Alexei Navalny’s apartment
Unique footage from the documentary project The Term, capturing the final moments of an exhausting 13-hour search of Alexei’s apartment on June 11, 2012. Security forces raided his home on the eve of the large-scale “March of Millions,” trying to disrupt yet another protest rally and intimidate oppo