Alexei Navalny reaches Russia; allies arrested at Vnukovo airport
Alexei Navalny returns to Russia
The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has reached back to his home country, Russia, months after recovering from a poisoning attack carried out on him — allegedly by Kremlin.
Navalny had been in Germany for the past five months after he was flown there for treatment against a Soviet-eranerve agent Novichok.
He chose to fly abudget airline Pobedafrom Berlin's BER airport at 1417 GMT, which was scheduled to land atMoscow's Vnukovo airport around 7:20 pm (1620 GMT) on Sunday. His wife,Yulia, is also accompanying him. However, his flight was diverted to the Sheremetyevoairport within a few hours of take-off.
Meanwhile, he has been warned that the 44-year-old Kremlin critic faces the danger ofimminent arrest upon his arrival in Moscow after he wasput on a national wanted list.
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Navalny has been named in the wanted list becauseRussia's prison service accuses him of not reporting to them at the end of last year in connection with a suspended sentence for embezzlement which he was serving out.
He has, however, shrugged the possibility of arrest saying, "They will arrest me? That's impossible, I'm an innocent person."
"I feel I am a citizen of Russia who has the full right to return to his home," he added.
A Facebook event page has also been created in which nearly 2,000 people have expressed interest in greetingNavalny upon his return despite temperatures in Moscow hovering around -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit).
He has left Berlin a day after the German governmenttransmitted transcripts of interviews the German authoritiesconducted with Navalny after he was evacuated to Berlin in late August.
While the Russian government denies all accusations, several westerninternational groups, including experts from Germany, conducted their own investigations and concluded he was poisoned by a nerve agent Novichok.