Kremlin critic Navalny detained after landing in Moscow

Alexei Navalny, centre, and his wife Yulia travel on an airport bus as they arrive at Sheremetyevo airport, outside Moscow, on Sunday (Mstyslav Chernov/AP)

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested at a Moscow airport on Sunday as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he has spent five months recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.

Mr Navalny’s detention at passport control in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport was widely expected because Russia’s prisons service said he had violated parole terms from a suspended sentence on a 2014 embezzlement conviction.