Yulia Navalny and her daughter Dasha showed solidarity on Wednesday evening as they attended the New York premiere for Navalny, a film about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Yulia, 45, and Dasha, also known as Daria, 21, posed for selfies on the red carpet at the Licoln Center alongside the cast and crew of the thriller which originally premiered during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in January.
The secretly filmed 98-minute documentary details the anti-corruption activist's life focusing on the second half of 2020 when Alexei and his team discovered the assassination plot against him while in their Black Forest hideout.
Yulia Navalny and her daughter Dasha showed solidarity on Wednesday evening as they attended the New York premiere for Navalny, a film about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (pictured with producer Maria Pevchikh)
The leader of the opposition Progress Party, 45, fell ill after he was exposed to the same nerve agent used against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in 2018.
Canadian director Daniel Roher had unparalleled access to Alexei following his poisoning, a period during which Navalny and his team partnered with the investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat, as well as other international news organizations such as CNN.
Produced by CNN Films and HBO Max, Roher extensively examines how they investigated Alexei's attempted assassination (which Vladimir Putin and the Russian government deny) and found proof of the Kremlin’s involvement.
Roher said in a statement: 'Alexei Navalny was just last week convicted and sentenced in Russia and cannot tell the story of what happened to him.
Yulia, 45, and Dasha, also known as Daria, 21, posed for selfies on the red carpet at the Licoln Center alongside the cast and crew of the thriller which originally premiered during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in January
'Our film shows his tremendous courage fighting an authoritarian regime and its corruption inside Russia.
'I’m looking forward to the Fathom Events engagements and speaking to CNN’s Clarissa Ward. I appreciate Warner Bros. Pictures creating these experiences for theatrical audiences.'
The film also features scenes between Alexei and his wife and American-accented daughter Daria, a student at Stanford University in California.
Navalny was jailed last year when he returned to Russia after receiving medical treatment in Germany following a poison attack with a Soviet-era nerve agent during a visit to Siberia in 2020. Navalny blamed Putin for the attack.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, centre, is seen via a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, standing next to his layers during a court session in Pokrov, Vladimir region
The Kremlin said it had seen no evidence that Navalny was poisoned and denied any Russian role if he was.
Russian authorities have cast Navalny and his supporters as subversives determined to destabilise Russia with backing from the West.
Navalny's opposition movement has been labelled 'extremist' and shut down, although his supporters continue to express their political stance, including their opposition to Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine, on social media.
After Navalny suffered the near-fatal poisoning in August 2020, the Kremlin posted a cryptic show of support wishing Navalny a 'speedy recovery'.
The secretly filmed 98-minute documentary details the anti-corruption activist's life focusing on the second half of 2020 when Alexei and his team discovered the assassination plot against him while in their Black Forest hideout
It comes after the State Department denounced the nine-year sentence that a Russian court handed down for the opposition leader amid a fierce Kremlin
