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A nearly three-hour televised debate between French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on Wednesday night scored the lowest ever ratings for such a match-up. With 15.6 million total viewers, the heated exchange between the incumbent and the far right extremist was aired live on both TF1 and Franc…

Documentaries don’t get much more timely than this. CNN Films has released the first trailer for Navalny, director Daniel Roher’s feature doc about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, and set an April 24 premiere date on CNN. The cable news outlet will air the feature with limited commercial interruption starting at 9…

This year’s Sundance Film Festival is online, but that doesn’t mean it can’t program a secret screening. Just added is Daniel Roher’s documentary thriller Navalny, which will make its world premiere 6 p.m. MT on January 25 as the 10th and final title in the U.S. Documentary Competition section Navalny focuses on…

CNN Films and HBO Max are partnering for a documentary on anti-corruption Russian government opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Described as a documentary thriller and shot as the story unfolded, Navalny follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During…

The Clooney Foundation for Justice, founded by George Clooney and his wife Amal, is speaking out about the upcoming libel trial of Russian dissident Aleksey Navalny. The opposition leader and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin was sentenced this week to more than two years in prison after being convicted of…

Heat on U.S. social media platforms is now blowing from Russia whose lower house of parliament inked a series of bills this week cracking down on sites that Moscow says discriminate against its media. Twitter labels some Russian media 'state-affiliated,' for instance, which Moscow objects to, according to news…