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Added on the 17/01/2021 19:10:42 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has spent five months in Berlin recovering from a poisoning attack, is on a plane headed back to Moscow. Navalny's flight on budget airline Pobeda took off from Berlin's BER airport at 1417 GMT. Navalny risks being arrested on arrival, but told reporters on board that he was "an innocent person". IMAGES
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny loses his legal appeal against a nine-year prison sentence that he and his allies condemned as politically motivated. His sentencing comes as Moscow pushes on with its military offensive in neighbouring Ukraine and Russian authorities seek to silence remaining government critics. IMAGES
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow. The court granted a prosecutors' request for Navalny to serve prison time for violating the terms of his parole. Judge Natalya Repnikova ordered a suspended three-and-a-half-year sentence Navalny received in 2014 to be changed to time in a penal colony. IMAGES
Russian police are present at a Moscow apartment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. A key Navalny aid reported that the apartment was being searched on grounds of violating sanitary and epidemiological measures, along with a second Moscow apartment owned by Navalny's wife Yulia and the Moscow office of his Anti-Corruption Foundation. IMAGES
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is detained at a Moscow airport shortly after he lands on a flight from Berlin. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.