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The Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny wants to return to Moscow this Sunday after being poisoned.

He will land on January 17 with a plane operated by the Russian airline Pobeda, he announced in the short message service Twitter on Wednesday.

After the assassination with the neurotoxin Novitschok he has been in Germany to heal since August.

The 44-year-old wrote that the question of returning has never arisen for him because he never left Russia himself.

"I arrived in Germany in a resuscitation box," he said, referring to his several weeks coma after the attack in Russia.

Navalny was recently in Germany for a rehabilitation measure.

He blames a “killer squad” of the FSB's domestic intelligence agency operating under the orders of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin for the poison attack with a chemical warfare agent by the Novichok group.

Russia denies involvement in the case and demands evidence of poisoning from Germany, for example.

Only then do you want to initiate an investigation.

Most recently, the Russian authorities increased the pressure on Navalny.

It was only on Tuesday that it became known that the prison authorities would like to bring the opposition activists to prison for allegedly not having fulfilled the probation requirement.

A corresponding application was made to a Moscow court.

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Shortly before the turn of the year, the authorities had asked Navalny in writing to meet the requirements of an earlier sentence and to report in person to the Russian authorities.

Otherwise there is a risk of imprisonment.

The case concerns a conviction from 2014. Navalny wrote that the suspended sentence ended on December 30th last year.

There are also investigations against the government critic for alleged fraud.

The Russian investigative committee accused him of having used donations equivalent to 3.9 million euros to his anti-corruption fund for "personal purposes" - for example to buy property and finance holidays.

Navalny refused.

The Putin opponent had always declared that he wanted to continue his work in Russia.