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Alexey Navalny arrested on his return to Moscow

Published Jan 17 2021 at 8:03 PM GMT
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  • Russia's leading Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, was detained by local police, moments after his return to the country and five months after he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.
  • CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports Navalny had originally been scheduled to land at Vnukovo airport, where a crowd of hundreds of supporters and journalists waited.
  • CNN has been unable to establish why the flight was diverted.


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  • Published Jan 17, 2021 8:03 PM GMT