The Kremlin's growing list of foreign and domestic enemies has added a new name. Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist, was listed on the country's Interior Ministry website for disseminating "fake news" about the Russian army in its fight against Ukraine.
The development comes ahead of the second anniversary of Alexey Navalny's arrest. The Russian opposition leader was poisoned in 2020 with a lethal nerve agent. Grozev and Navalny worked together with a team of journalists from CNN and other outlets to investigate the poisoning. They identified Russian specialists who trailed Navalny before he was poisoned.
Following the update to the Kremlin's website, Grozev expressed in a Twitter post on Monday that he didn’t know why he had been added to Russia’s wanted list.
“I have no idea on what grounds the Kremlin has put me on its ‘wanted list,’ thus I cannot provide any comments at this time. In a way it doesn’t matter – for years they’ve made it clear they are scared of our work and would stop at nothing to make it go away,” he said.
For more on Russia and its suppression of investigative journalism, don't miss CNN's special encore presentation of the award-winning film Navalny, airing this Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. You can also watch it now on HBO Max and CNNgo.
The CNN Film made the EE BAFTA Longlist in the Documentary category, and it was nominated for Best Documentary Feature by the Producers Guild of America (PGA).
Also, director Daniel Roher was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary.
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