the leading critic of the kremlin alexia
navalny has been detained by police
after returning to moscow for the first
time
since being poisoned with a nerve agent
in an attack he blames on the russian
authorities
he flew in from berlin but was led away
by police after reaching passport
control
western leaders have condemned his
arrest from moscow is steve rosenberg
he'd only been back on russian soil a
few minutes
when alexander vineley was told he was
being detained
a kiss goodbye for his wife julia
then the kremlin's fiercest critic was
led away
earlier there were chaotic scenes at a
different moscow airport where mr
navalny's flight
had been scheduled to land police
detained his supporters
it's a disgrace they chant inside
the arrivals all filled with riot police
who cleared the terminal
but in the end the plane was re-routed
to another airport
for alex saying the violate this isn't
quite home sweet home
as you can see from the welcome party
he's back in the country where last
summer
he was poisoned allegedly by a group of
undercover russian security agents
a country he has accused of state
terrorism
five months ago alexey navalny fell sick
on an internal
russian flight in a coma he was
airlifted to berlin
for urgent treatment toxicology reports
from germany france and sweden
confirmed the opposition activist had
been poisoned
by novichok nerve agent
last month president putin dismissed
accusations that the russian state
was behind the attack on mr navalny if
our agents had wanted to kill him he
said
they'd have finished the job
but for weeks the authorities here have
been dropping
not so subtle hints that mr navalny
should stay away from russia
hence he decided to ignore when he left
berlin
as a citizen of russia he says i have
the absolute right
to return home he did come back to
russia
but tonight alexey navalny is not at
home
with his family steve rosenberg bbc news
moscow