Crew rolling. Crew were rolling, daniel. Daniel roher ok, were going, guys . Both yeah. Daniel roher ok, 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 . Alexei navalny oh, come on, daniel. No, no way. Its like youre making a movie for the case of my death. Like, again, im ready to answer your question, but please let it be in another movie, movie number two. Lets make a thriller out of this movie. And in this case i would be killed, lets make a boring movie of memory. [suspenseful music] [speaking russian] reporter Alexei Navalny is stepping back into another showdown with the kremlin. Reporter 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. Reporter mr. Navalny, arent you afraid
unit make the same journey on different flights. well, they can t be telling 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 run-down apartment building on the outskirts of moscow, where operative oleg tayakin lives. my name s clarissa ward. i work for cnn. my name s 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?
we presented the findings to navalny in germany as he recovered from the poisoning. would it surprise you to learn that some of these men went on more than 30 trips with you over the course of three years? this is absolutely terrifying. reporter: four months after navalny was poisoned, our search for the perpetrators took us to an apartment block on the edge of moscow. the home of operative oleg tayakin. my name is clarissa ward. i work for cnn. can i ask you a couple of questions? [ speaking non-english ] was it your team that poisoned navalny, please? do you have any comment? he doesn t seem to want to talk to us. as we visited tayakin, navalny
navalny announced he would run for president in 2018. we presented the findings to navalny in germany as he recovered from the poisoning. would it surprise you to learn that some of these men went on more than 30 trips with you over the course of three years? this is absolutely terrifying. reporter: four months after navalny was poisoned, our search for the perpetrators took us to an apartment block on the edge of moscow. the home of operative oleg tayakin. my name is clarissa ward. i work for cnn. can i ask you a couple of questions? [ speaking non-english ] was it your team that poisoned navalny, please? do you have any comment? he doesn t seem to want to talk
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 poisoned navalny? 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 this group of killers exist in russia. i don t want putin being president. i don t want him being tsar of russia. i want to go back and try to change it.