Alexei Navalny detained at airport on return to Russia

[herding cats]

The Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport shortly after returning from treatment abroad for a suspected poisoning attempt on his life by Russia’s FSB spy agency.

Navalny, whose investigations into corruption in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle have sparked protests and angered the country’s most powerful men, had vowed to return home despite signs the Kremlin was preparing to arrest him.

Police detained Navalny shortly after his flight from Berlin landed on Sunday evening. It was due to touch down at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, where hundreds of supporters had gathered. The authorities closed the airport at the last minute, with Navalny’s plane diverted to Sheremetyevo and away from waiting media.

Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said the Kremlin was terrified of Navalny and of images showing large crowds wanting to greet him. “Until recently, it was impossible to believe they [the authorities] were so scared. But here’s the confirmation,” she tweeted.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/17/alexei-navalny-detained-at-airport-on-return-to-russia

[Maraya1969]

1. Why the hell would he go back to Russia???? Isn't he inviting his death?

[fearnobush]

2. Because he has nowhere else to go that's safe. Putin will get him in any country.

He might as well go home and die in the country he loves

And just image how far deep tRump has enabled Putin to penetrate our government.
The damage could be catastrophic.

[soothsayer]

3. He's brave as heck

[herding cats]

4. He definitely is.

I couldn't imagine doing what he's doing.

[doubleplusgood]

5. I hope he doesn't end up like Benazir Bhutto

A former Prime Minster of Pakistan, she had returned to Pakistan from exile in October 2008 only to be assassinated by a suicide bomber on December 27, 2007. I hope that Navalny fares better with the whole world watching.