Kremlin critic arrested at airport


Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen at the passport control point at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport yesterday. Russian police detained Navalny shortly after he landed on a flight from Berlin. – AFP pic, January 18, 2021.

POLICE detained top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny yesterday when he flew back to Russia months after barely surviving a poisoning attack, prompting a new wave of Western condemnation.

Navalny was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport less than an hour after he flew in from Germany, where he had been recovering from the poisoning with a nerve agent he said was ordered by President Vladimir Putin.


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