Politicians, scholars and Ukrainian journalists criticized the Academy for feting the Russian opposition leader while allegedly rejecting a message from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky
March 13, 2023 4:34 PM EDT’s namesake documentary won an Oscar on Sunday, its victory was hailed by many in the U.S. as a rebuke of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Indeed, speaking through director Daniel Roher, the Russian opposition leader cited the “unjust war of aggression in Ukraine” as the reason he is currently in solitary confinement. But there was at least one contingent who weren’t ready to praise the film: some Ukrainian journalists, scholars and politicians.
“The first photo is the fight for freedom. The second photo is the fight for power. Do not confuse them,” wrote Taras Mishchenko, editor-in-chief of the publication Mezha.Media, juxtaposing an image of Navalny’s family in black tie at the Oscars with an image of Ukrainian soldiers on a battlefield. He added that he was “happy” that Roher “used the short time he had on the world’s biggest stage to explicitly condemn Putin’s barbaric attack on Ukraine.”to push for democracy in Russia, but many Ukrainians continue to be wary of the Russian opposition leader. The fundamental problem, says Maria Popova, an associate professor at McGill University who studies political development in Ukraine, is that Navalny “has denounced the war, but not Russian imperialism.
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