Hillary Clinton, Alongside Yulia Navalnaya, Stresses the Importance of Democracy at ‘Navalny’ Doc Screening in New York

On Thursday night, Hillary Clinton and Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, gathered an intimate crowd for a screening of the “Navalny” documentary at MoMA. The event was held two weeks before the one-year anniversary of Navalny’s death while in Russian custody, and two years since the CNN-produced Oscar-winning film first premiered at Sundance. Before the screening, guests gathered outside the Celeste Bartos Theater, where Clinton mingled with the crowd. Guests included Patricia Clarkson, Katie Couric, Gina Gershon, Michael Avedon, Alex Lundqvist, and Fern Mallis, along with “Navalny” producers Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, and Melanie Miller, and investigative reporter Christo Grozev, who is featured in the film. Mikhail Baryshnikov, who defected from the Soviet Union fifty years ago, descended the building stairs alongside Navalnaya, and the pair posed for photos next to a poster of the film. Mikhail Baryshnikov Inside the movie theater, Clinton told the crowd that she finds Navalny’s story significant, because it serves as a reminder of the importance of standing up for freedom and democracy “everywhere in the world, wherever human rights or freedom or democracy or the rule of law are threatened,” she said. Clinton and Navalnaya were both at the Munich Security Conference last year

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