West urges Russia to free critic Alexei Navalny but Kremlin refuses
Police detained Navalny at the airport on Sunday, when returning home after being poisoned by what German military tests showed was a Novichok nerve agent
18 January 2021 - 12:03
Moscow — Western nations told Russia to immediately free detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday, a day after he was detained at a Moscow airport after flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last August.
Russia quickly rejected calls to release him, telling the West to mind its own business as police continued to hold Navalny in a Moscow police station...
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