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On January 17, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Russia nearly five months after being poisoned with the military-grade nerve agent Novichok in the Russian city of Tomsk.Navalny’s flight from Berlin to Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, where a large crowd of supporters and journalists had gathered, was diverted to the Russian capital's Sheremetyevo Airport for what the airline called technical reasons."Navalny was subsequently detained at passport control over alleged parole violations related to a 2014 fraud conviction he has called "politically motivated." The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled the conviction in the so-called Yves Rocher case "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable."The ECHR further demanded Navalny and his business partners be compensated
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