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The Russian opponent Alexei Navalny got on the plane this afternoon to Moscow after months of convalescence in Germany from the poisoning he suffered in Russia in August that almost cost him his life.

Navalny announced last week that he was preparing to return to Russia to continue his political fight against Vladimir Putin, whom he accuses of having ordered his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok.

His followers await him today at the airport and also the Russian authorities, who are preparing to arrest him for having violated the conditions of a sentence for corruption that he is serving under the open regime.

"The Vnukovo airport is full of police, I had not seen so many in my life," explained a stewardess from inside the terminal to EL MUNDO.

Russian authorities have restricted journalists' access to the area

.

Navalny can be detained at the airport itself.

Russian media speculated that the plane may land at another airport or even in another city.

The opponent has said that, despite the threats, the possibility of not returning to Russia has never been considered.

Asked if there will be new investigations into the corruption of the elite in Russia, Navalny was categorical: "Of course, that's why I'm coming back!"

Just before taking off, Navalny shared a video on Instagram in which he appears with his wife.

"Boy, bring us some vodka, we're flying home

," Yulia Navalnaya said, sitting next to her husband in row 13 of the machine.

Several journalists boarded the plane.

When asked if he feels like a hero, the politician replied that he feels like a "citizen of Russia who has every right to return home."

Navalny is exposed to a new attempt on his life.

But on the table he has legal problems first.

During the time that he has been recovering in Germany, Navalny has not regularly appeared before the prison authorities, as his 'open regime' establishes.

In addition,

the justice has opened a new case against him for embezzlement

.

OPPOSITORS ARRESTED

The opposition denounces that the Putin regime is intensifying the repression against them.

Pavel Zelensky, a member of the opposition Anti-Corruption Foundation led by Navalny, was jailed yesterday by a Moscow court on charges of inciting extremism on the Internet.

Zelensky is a camera operator at the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation, dedicated to investigating corruption cases in the Russian government.

The conviction is for a tweet, published last October, which included a photo of a Russian journalist, Irina Slavina, who committed suicide by burning herself in front of a branch of the Interior Ministry after a police search.

During Sunday the Russian media reported the arrest, at the airport itself, of at least one other opponent, Dimitri Beskorovainy.

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