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Poisoned Russian opposition leader and leading Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny to return to Russia
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he will fly back to Russia on January 17 from Germany, where he has been convalescing after being poisoned.
Key points:
- Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced he had bought tickets to return to Moscow on January 17
- He had been undergoing treatment in Germany after falling ill with Novichok poisoning
- He said Russia’s prison authority had asked a court to jail him over a suspended sentence he had been serving
Mr Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s leading critics, was airlifted to Germany for treatment in August after collapsing on a plane in what Germany and other Western nations say was an attempt to murder him with a Novichok nerve agent.
Russian authorities deny any involvement in the…
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