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On Sunday evening, Russian security officials arrested the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny upon his arrival in Moscow back from Germany, shortly after the diversion of his plane, while the European Union and an advisor to the US President-elect Joe Biden demanded his immediate release.
The Russian mass media reported that the police arrested Navalny (44 years) at the border point at "Sheremetyova" airport in Moscow, while his wife Yulia, who accompanied him on the return flight from Berlin, was allowed to pass.
Minutes before his arrest, the Russian opposition expressed his happiness at his return to his country after receiving treatment in Germany after his poisoning in Russia last summer.
On October 2020, Britain, France, Germany, Estonia and Belgium said in a joint letter sent to the UN Security Council that poisoning Russian dissident Alexei Navalny "poses a threat to international peace and security."
The five countries demanded Russia to disclose, in an urgent, full and transparent manner, the circumstances of the attack and to inform the Security Council of the matter.
The United States did not sign the letter, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Russian government must provide a full explanation for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and hold those involved responsible.
Russia denied any involvement in the incident, and said that it had not yet found evidence of a crime, and the Russian mission to the United Nations had not yet commented on the letter.
Navalny was transferred to Berlin in August on a Russian domestic flight, and he received treatment for what Germany said was poisoning with the nerve-killer Novichok gas.
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