Almaty. January 18. KazTAG - a well-known Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption investigator Alexei Navalny detained by the security forces on the passport control at the airport of Moscow, the agency correspondent reports.
For the detention of Navalny when passport control in the airport "Sheremetyevo" in the air of the TV channel "Rain" was observed about half a million people, also what was happening "Stremili" and users of social networks that were at this time nearby. The politician was supposed to land at Vnukovo airport, but the aircraft with Navalny was redirected to Sheremetyevo under the pretext that snow removal techniques were allegedly broken on the runway. The opposition leader was detained contrary to the arguments of the lawyer Olga Mikhailov, who, according to the law, had the right to accompany him - more than her policies remained.
Navalny himself earlier, he stated that he was not afraid of arrests, emphasizing that he was trying to bring to responsibility on the case in which the European Court of Human Rights had long taken his direction.
"January 17, 2021 at Sheremetyevo airport, employees of the search department of operational management of UFSIN Russia in Moscow was detained by Alexey Navalny, who from December 29, 2020 was wanted for multiple violations of the probationary period. Further measure of the restraint of Navalny A.A. Determine the court. Before the court decision, he will be in custody, "said the federal execution service.
In parallel, the arrest of numerous supporters of Navalny continues at Vnukovo Airport. In Moscow, movement along the streets that lead to Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports.
Recall, on August 20, 2020, Navalny was hospitalized with poisoning after an emergency landing of the aircraft, which he returned to Moscow from Tomsk.
Julia Navalny - Navalny's spouse demanded Vladimir Putin from Russian President to allow her husband to Germany.
On August 24, it became known that the Navalny was poisoned by a substance from a group of active substances called cholinesterase inhibitors.
On September 2, German authorities stated that Navalny was poisoned by the Magnifier of the Novice Group, which became known in 2018 after the poisoning of the ex-employee of the Main Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia Sergey Skriply and his daughter of Julia Skripal.
September 7, Navalny left coma.
By the end of 2020, the results of the investigation of the group of international journalists were published, from which it follows that poisoning the policy whom the majority of experts consider Putin's main opponent, a specially formed FSB group was engaged. The Russian authorities could not clearly disprove the findings of journalists.