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Alexei Navalny’s freedom ended before he could show his passport. At the border control at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Terminal D, the police took away the Russian opposition politician and prominent returnees. Everyone could see it, so many journalists had accompanied him on the flight from Berlin, just to film this scene: How the police ask Navalny, who arrives from Berlin in a green jacket and scarf, to come.
How an argument unfolds in the narrow passport control corridor: Navalny points out that his lawyer is standing next to him, but his presence is rejected. How he exchanges one last hurried kiss with his wife Julia. How they take it alone.
It is not known for sure if Navalny will be imprisoned for a long time, but it appears that he will. Russia’s prison authority FSIN announced shortly after Navalny’s arrest that he had been arrested at her request. She accuses him of failing to meet the reporting requirements for a controversial earlier suspended sentence. If the court agrees, that would mean three and a half years in prison for Navalny.
