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On Instagram, Navalny stated that he bought a airplane ticket to Russia on Wednesday morning after realizing that “he’s virtually wholesome and may lastly come again house.”
“There was by no means a query for me whether or not to return or not, by no means. Simply because I did not depart. I ended up in Germany, having arrived there in an intensive care field. On January 17, Sunday, I’ll return house on Pobeda airline flight. Meet me,” Navalny tweeted on Wednesday.
On Monday, Russian jail authorities despatched an official request to a court docket asking to exchange his suspended sentence in a years-old case with an actual jail time period.
Navalny was poisoned with the toxin Novichok in August and almost died. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement.
He’s at the moment in Germany, after receiving therapy at Berlin’s Charite clinic.
The investigation pieced collectively how the elite unit adopted Navalny’s group all through its August journey to Siberia.
One other CNN-Bellingcat report featured a cellphone name through which Navalny duped one of many brokers into revealing that he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok utilized to his underwear.
In a video tackle posted on his Instagram account Wednesday, the activist stated new legal instances introduced in opposition to him in Russia had been “demonstratively fabricated” and an try to stop him coming again to his house nation.
In 2014, Navalny was discovered responsible of fraud after he and his brother Oleg had been accused of embezzling 30 million rubles ($540,000) from a Russian subsidiary of French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher. Alexey Navalny was given a suspended sentence and his brother was sentenced to a jail time period.
Russia launched a brand new fraud accusation and jail risk in opposition to Navalny on the finish of 2020, rising stress on him.
The nation’s Investigative Committee has additionally accused Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Basis of “fraud on a big scale” for allegedly misusing donations from supporters and spending them on “personal functions.”
Navalny dismissed the fees in opposition to him. “I’ve survived. And now Putin, who gave the order to homicide me, screeches throughout his bunker and tells his servants to do all the pieces in order that I don’t return. The servants act as per ordinary: they fabricate new legal instances in opposition to me,” Navalny stated in Wednesday’s Instagram video.
“They’re doing all the pieces to scare me. However what they’re doing there may be not of a lot curiosity to me. Russia is my nation, Moscow is my metropolis, I miss them,” he added.
The Russian chief additionally claimed final month with out proof that Navalny is being supported by US intelligence providers, including, “if that is right, then that is fascinating, then after all [our] particular providers must regulate him.”
CNN’s Mary Ilyushina reported from Moscow, Zamira Rahim wrote from London.
