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MOSCOW, Jan 18 — Russian police yesterday detained four top allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny at a Moscow airport where they were to meet him on his return from Germany, a senior associate said. Ivan Zhdanov, the head of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, said on Twitter that key ally...

Russian opposition figure Lyubov Sobol takes part in a rally in Moscow February 29, 2020. — Reuters pic

Sobol, 33, rose to prominence in the summer of 2019 when she and other opposition politicians were barred from running for local council elections in Moscow. She has announced plans to ballot in this year’s parliamentary vote. Navalny’s flight took off from Berlin just after 1415 GMT and is expected to land in Moscow around 7:30 pm .

Also detained, Zhdanov said, was Ilya Pakhomov, who was with Navalny when he fell violently ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August.

 

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