Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny detained on his return to Russia

Navalny traveled from Berlin to Moscow after recovering in Germany from his poisoning in August

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Russia on Sunday five months after his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok. He was immediately detained on his arrival in Moscow. 

He arrived with his wife Yulia Navalnaya at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Sunday evening local time. 

Navalny traveled from Berlin to Moscow after recovering in Germany from his poisoning in August. Confusion surrounded his arrival in Russia — his plane was scheduled to land at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, where supporters and media were waiting.

His spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh tweeted at 12:12 p.m. ET that he had arrived at Sheremetyevo. “Until recently it was impossible to believe that they were so afraid. But here’s the confirmation,” she wrote, in a translated tweet.