Alexei Navalny to fly to back Russia, after being poisoned in August
‘Russia is my country, Moscow is my city and I miss it,’ he wrote on Instagram
13 January 2021 - 12:16
Moscow — Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday he would fly back to Russia on January 17 from Germany where he has been recovering after being poisoned, shrugging off potential legal risks that could see him jailed.
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...
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