Plane carrying Kremlin foe Navalny leaves Berlin for Moscow | AFP

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has spent five months in Berlin recovering from a poisoning attack, is on a plane headed back to Moscow. Navalny’s flight on budget airline Pobeda took off from Berlin’s BER airport at 1417 GMT. Navalny risks being arrested on arrival, but told reporters on board that he was “an innocent person“. Subscribe to AFP and activate your notifications to get the latest news ?