Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny kissed his wife goodbye in an emotional scene as he was arrested by Russian authorities just minutes after landing in Moscow. Officers arrested Navalny when he showed his passport to border guards before formally entering Russia, five months after he was poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent. Russia's Federal Prison Service said in a statement Nevalny has been detained due to the alleged violations of his suspended prison sentence for embezzlement. The country's federal prison service accused him of violating the terms of a suspended sentence dating from 2014. 'But does the [prison service] really care about common sense?

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2021 15:30 UTC