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Cinema For Peace Chief Responds To Alexei Navalny’s Death; NGO Airlifted Activist From Russia in 2020: “I’ve Been Afraid For Months”

Jaka Bizilj, the founder of the Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation which organized the airlift from Russia of opposition activist Alexei Navalny after his poisoning in 2020, has responded to his sudden death in an Artic Circle jail on Friday. Further attendees will include Sharon Stone, Helen Mirren, Omar Sy, Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk, and Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who rose to fame after she protested against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on a live news bulletin. Bizilj arranged a plane with funds from private donors and then enlisted the support of then German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to exert pressure on Russia to allow for Navalny to be transported to Germany for treatment.

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