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According to the flight plan, the plane that had flown from Germany was supposed to land at Vnukov Airport, which was packed with Navaln supporters and the media, but the plane was headed for Sheremetyevo International Airport.
“I’m not scared. I’m sure everything is done,” said A. Navalnas at the airport. His speech was broadcast on “Dožd” television.
Navaln said he was not afraid to return to Russia because he wanted to accuse him of doing so at the European Court of Human Rights, especially since “Putin said he needed it” and “arrest me for nothing.”
Later, A. Navalnas went to passport control, where the police were waiting for him. After a few minutes of speaking with officials, whose leader tried to provoke Navalna to disobey, but warned of the possible use of force against him, Navalnas, who was not wearing a protective mask, said goodbye to his wife and was removed peacefully. His lawyer was not allowed to accompany him.
“The police officers were brought to the Alexei border without explaining the reason. The lawyer was not allowed to go with him,” said A. Navalnas spokeswoman Kira Jarmyš.
Before the flight, Russian police warned that Navaln, 44, was under arrest in Russia. Russian police arrested four Navaln supporters at Vnukov airport on Sunday.
Mr. Navaln was treated in Germany for several months after an attempt to poison him. Navaln says he tried to poison him on the orders of Russian FSB president Vladimir Putin.
Russia’s prison service says Navalnas, who arrived in Moscow, could face prison for violating the terms of a probation sentence imposed on him in a 2014 fraud case.
Updated 7:04 pm
The plane in which Kremlin critic Alexei Navaln flies from Germany to Russia was diverted to another Moscow airport.
The plane was supposed to land at Vnukovo airport, where supporters and the media gathered, AFP journalists on board reported.
According to the flight, the flight pilot informed the passengers that he would not be landing at Vnukov Airport as scheduled, but at Sheremetyevo Airport, around 8:20 p.m. local time.
Sheremetyevo is one of the four international airports serving Moscow.
The Russian authorities have indicated that they intend to arrest Navalna, 44, shortly after his return to his homeland, accusing him of violating the conditions of parole and parole.
Updated 6:19 pm
Street arrests in front of the airport:
Updated 17.23
Several colleagues of A. Navaln were arrested at the Moscow airport
Russian police arrested four close comrades of opposition leader Alexei Navaln on Sunday at the Moscow airport, where they were preparing to meet a returning German politician, one of his allies said.
Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anticorruption Foundation founded by A. Navalnas, announced on the social network Twitter that one of the detainees is a close associate of the Kremlin critic Liubov Sobol. Pictures filmed by local journalists show that the police removed her.
A few hours before the opposition arrived, security was tightened at the Vnukovo airport. Navaln urged his followers to meet him at the airport.
Moving at the airport:
Now in Vnukovo. pic.twitter.com/vvuPcqkweS
– The same Martín (@martin_camera) January 17, 2021
Crowd at Vnukovo airport waiting for Navalny to arrive from Berlin. Many think he is likely to be stopped before he gets here, but they are coming out to show their support. pic.twitter.com/Oafvy0SvLr
– Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) January 17, 2021
Entrance to Vnukovo airport. pic.twitter.com/ETV7oPidGi
– The same Martín (@martin_camera) January 17, 2021
The 44-year-old opposition leader returns to Moscow from Germany, where he was treated for several months after trying to poison him. According to A. Navaln, this attempt was organized on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Navalny’s brother Oleg came to Vnukovo. pic.twitter.com/mJnNkynJP9
– Liza Fokht (@lizafoht) January 17, 2021
The politician felt ill during a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August and was later flown by medical plane to Berlin.
Western experts discovered that he was poisoned by the nerve paralyzing substance Novičiok, developed in the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin denies having contributed in any way to the attack, and Russian investigators say there is no reason to launch an investigation.
Berlin said on Saturday it responded to Moscow’s request for legal assistance and provided Russia with transcripts of German police talks with Navaln.
Moscow missed the “gist” of the Navaln case file sent by Germany
Moscow has received material from a poisoning case by Russian opponent Alexei Navaln, but has received no substantive responses, Russian foreign affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
“I saw headlines that Germany answered all the questions from Russia, I called our experts in this area. They say: well, of course, we got an answer from the German representatives, but the problem is that, as always, there was no content in the questions that were being asked. The reluctance of the client to comment in detail on this issue is also mentioned. Classic, “Ms Zakharova told Rossija 1 television.
Berlin said on Saturday that German officials had handed over to Russia the talks with Kremlin critic A. Navalnu in response to Moscow’s request for legal assistance in its investigation into the opposition poisoning.
Navaln was flown to Berlin for treatment in late August when the blocs were felt and lost consciousness on a plane flying from Siberia to Moscow.
Western investigation has shown that Navaln was poisoned by Novičiok, a Soviet-made anti-nerve paralyzing substance.
This week, Navalnas announced that he plans to return to Russia on Sunday on the Pobeda airline flight.
However, the opposition faces arrest for violations of the probationary period related to the case against it, according to Russian authorities.
Western democracies must not tolerate the arrest of A. Navalnas, says G. Nausėda
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says the West cannot tolerate the arrest of Alexei Navaln, a Russian opposition politician who returned to Moscow on Sunday, showing that the Kremlin is systematically abusing human rights.
“The gruesome arrest of Russian opposition leader A. Navaln as soon as he returns home is just another proof of the Kremlin’s efforts to systematically abuse human rights and democratic freedoms. Western democracies must not tolerate this,” he wrote G. Nausėda on the social network Twitter.
Navaln returned to Moscow from Germany on Sunday night. He was taken away by the police at the airport. The Russian Prison Service reported that he had been detained for violating the terms of a probation sentence imposed on him in a 2014 fraud case.
The Minister of National Defense Arvydas Anušauskas also reacted to the arrest of Navalnas on the social network.
“Navaln returned to Moscow and was immediately arrested. Poisoned by” novyčioku “in Russia, cured in Germany, he returned to Russia again. The official consent – with blocked passages, accesses and other staging attributes – seemed as if it during the presidential visit ”, writes the minister.
Seimas spokesperson Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen also shared the reaction.
“Alexei Navaln’s courage stands in stark contrast to the darkness of Russia’s current leaders. It is clear that international attention has been high but insufficient, and the Russian authorities have not stopped the usual brutal actions against Navaln and his followers. Therefore, the position of the EU as a whole must also be clear and bold.
The example of A. Navaln shows that even one person can resist the system. It is a moral duty to support such efforts. Even when that support does not seem to work in a coercive system and does not change the situation in any way. Changes! And one outside, a soldier. Both in Russia and Belarus. Because any change begins with the free will, of a specific person around whom others gather ”, writes the Speaker of the Seimas.
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