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Police vehicles are seen next to the Pobeda airline plane, which Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is to take for Moscow, at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Schoenefeld, southeast of Berlin, on January 17, 2021. - Chief Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny returns to Russia from Germany on January 17, facing imminent arrest after authorities warned they would detain him. The 44-year-old opposition leader is flying back to Moscow after spending several months in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack that he said was carried out on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)