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Added on the 17/01/2021 16:42:42 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is detained at a Moscow airport shortly after he lands on a flight from Berlin. 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
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 police officers gather on Pushkinskaya square, near the Kremlin, ahead of an unauthorised rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. IMAGES
Moscow's main Manezhnaya Square near the Kremlin is cordoned off as anti-Kremlin protestors are set to rally in Russia's capital city to demand the release of jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has been on hunger strike for three weeks. IMAGES