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-Rolling. -We're rolling on him.

Roher: Okay. We're going, guys?

-Yeah. -[ Russian accent ] 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.

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[ Speaking Russian ]

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Man: Alexei Navalny is stepping back

into another showdown with the Kremlin.

Woman: 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.

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Hi.

[ Applause ]

[ Speaks indistinctly ]

Man #2: Are you not scared, Alexei?

Woman #2: What do you expect in Moscow?

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[ People chanting "Navalny" ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

Woman #3: 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.

Man #3: More than any other opposition figure in Russia,

Alexei Navalny gets ordinary people active protest.

[ Chanting in Russian ]

Alexei: 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.

Man #4: His youngest fans have turned to TikTok,

which has been crucial in spreading the word.

Woman #4: Navalny's posted hundreds of videos

about his corruption investigations,

and they're wildly popular.

Roher: The Kremlin hates Navalny so much

that they literally refuse to say his name.

[ Pounding ]

Alexei: 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.

Roher: And, boy, were you wrong.

Yes. I was very wrong.

[ Chuckles ]

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[ Man speaks Russian ]

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.

[ Moaning in agony ]

Man #5: Passengers on his flight from Siberia

heard Alexei Navalny cry out in agony.

[ Navalny continues moaning ]

[ Siren wailing ]

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.

Roher: His wife raced to be by his side.

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[ Yelling in Russian ]

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[ Doctor speaking Russian ]

Interpreter: 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.

Man #6: We're hearing state news agencies here that are backed

by the Kremlin suggesting that hallucinogenic drugs

may be involved but not poisoning.

[ Crowd chanting in Russian ]

[ Speaking German ]

Woman #5: This morning, an air ambulance

from a German charity landed.

Interpreter: 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.

[ Applause ]

[ Man speaking Russian ]

[ Siren wailing ]

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Grozev: 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."

Man #7: The closest anyone's come

to tracing a poisoning to Vladimir Putin --

The 2018 attack in Salisbury, England.

Man #8: 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.

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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.

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Woman #6: 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."

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Dasha: 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.

[ Cellphone ringing ]

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.

Pevchikh: 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.

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

Man #9: 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.

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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?"

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[ Merkel speaking German ]

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Grozev: 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.

Roher: 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!

Volkov: 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."

[ Clicks tongue ]

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Grozev: 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?

Alexei: 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.

Roher: 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.

Grozev: 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."

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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."

Alexei: 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.

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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.

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Pevchikh: 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.

Roher: 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.

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Alexei: 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.

Grozev: I will show you photographs.

Tell me if you recognize any of the people

in those photographs.

Grozev: 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.

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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...

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Grozev: 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.

Lister: There's a huge debate as to whether

this was intended to incapacitate or kill.

Man #10: 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...

Yulia: 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.

Man #11: 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...

Alexei: Who's the most stupid?

Grozev: 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.

Roher: 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.

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Schmid: 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.

Dasha: 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.

♪ How bizarre ♪

Ho. Again.

♪ How bizarre ♪

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?

♪ ...smile from the past ♪

♪ Elephants and acrobats, lions, snakes, monkeys ♪

♪ Pele speaks "righteous" ♪

♪ Sister Zina says "funky" ♪

♪ How bizarre ♪

♪ How bizarre ♪

♪ How bizarre ♪

[ Laughing ]

You know that Christo call it, "Moscow4."

Uh, you know what is Moscow4?

Roher: 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.

Grozev: Could I see the...

I have no idea.

[Line ringing]

[Ringing continues]

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!

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Hello.

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Now, I totally feel like I am undercover agent

with the wired up.

Are you nervous?

Sorry?

No.

A little bit.

[Line ringing]

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Vladimir:Hello.

Grozev: He hung up.

Oh, my God, you ruined their day.

Not just today, I guess.

[Line ringing]

Alexey: Hello.

Hung up.

Maybe try it the prank way.

Okay.

[Line ringing]

Mikhail: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.

[Line ringing]

Konstantin:Hello.

Alexei: 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.

[ Laughter ]

They will definitely kill him.

Poor Kudryavtsev.

Poor Kudryavtsev, yes.

[ Sighs ]

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.

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Christo, before pushing this button,

I want to say that was amazing job.

Thank you everyone for your contribution, guys.

[ Computer dings ]

Yeah!

High-five.

Okay, good.

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

♪♪

Woman #7: Now an exclusive investigation can reveal

a top-secret mission...

Ward: An elite team of operatives

has been tracking Navalny's every move

for more than three years.

Alexei: 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.

Ward: 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."

Grozev: 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.

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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.

Dasha: I prefer shopping.

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Ready for a 12-hour flight.

We have to sit down for good luck.

Yes.

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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.

Alexei: 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.

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I know that my dad misses Russia...

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

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And if he didn't go back,

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

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It's something worth fighting for.

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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.

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Pevchikh: 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.

Ward: 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.

Woman #8: 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.

Interpreter: 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.

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Roher: 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.

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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.

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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.

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Grozev: 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.

[ Screaming ]

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.

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This is the plane and this is Moscow.

And this is the plane, and this is Moscow.

[Captain speaks indistinctly]

[ Laughter ]

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It's a hot potato, really.

They're realized that it's not possible

to control the crowd,

and they chickened out.

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Man #12: Yulia! Yulia!

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Roher: 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...

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