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Alexey Navalny leaves Germany on Russia-bound jet five months after being poisoned - CNN

Alexey Navalny leaves Germany on Russia-bound jet five months after being poisoned - CNN

Alexey Navalny leaves Germany on Russia-bound jet five months after being poisoned - CNN
Jan 17, 2021 2 mins, 11 secs

"Thanks to you all, I hope we will get there fine," Navalny said.

"And I'm sure everything will be absolutely great."

A joint investigation by CNN and the group Bellingcat implicated the Russian Security Service (FSB) in Navalny's poisoning, piecing together how an elite unit at the agency followed Navalny's team throughout a trip to Siberia in August, where Navalny was poisoned and fell ill on a flight to Moscow.

The investigation also found that this unit, which included chemical weapons experts, had followed Navalny on more than 30 trips to and from Moscow since 2017.

Russia denies involvement in Navalny's poisoning.

But several Western officials and Navalny himself have openly blamed Russia.

"They are doing everything to scare me," Navalny said in an Instagram post and video Wednesday.

And I can only say a huge thank you to everyone."

What's next for Navalny?

Navalny, who has been detained by Russian authorities many times, was placed on the country's federal wanted list during his time in Germany at the request of the FSIN, which in December accused him of violating probation terms in a years-old fraud case that Navalany dismisses as politically motivated.

That will give authorities a choice in how to muzzle him -- from placing him under pre-trial house arrest to a weeks-long stay in a detention center.

But political observers are speculating on a full spectrum of possible scenarios, from immediate arrest to a laborious charade of legal threats and short-term detentions.

Abbas Gallyamov, a political consultant and former Kremlin speechwriter, said on Facebook that Navalny would "definitely" be arrested.

"Why am I so sure?

"That is [the Kremlin could] start playing political games with him: Leave him at large, make his life even harder than before, and have him as an object of constant attacks, a permanent body that will enforce the line of an American administration or the CIA."

Putin, who refuses to acknowledge Navalny as a legitimate opponent, has described the extensive media coverage and investigations into the poisoning as a fabrication by Western intelligence, and said in December that if Russian security services had wanted to kill Navalny, they "would have finished" the job.

"The situation with Navalny looks like two trains running towards each other at full speed, bound to collide," said Tatyana Stanovaya, a visiting fellow, also at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Pavel Zelensky, a cameraman with Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, was arrested Friday and will be detained until the end of February.

According to Agora, a Russian human rights organization, Zelensky was accused of extremism for tweets from September, in which he blamed the government for journalist Irina Slavina's self-immolation.

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