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BBC's Sarah Rainsford on Alexey Navalny:

'When #Navalny survived the attempt to kill him with a nerve agent, #Novichok , he knew he would never be safe again in #Russia

And yet, after he recovered in Germany from the poisoning, he flew home.

As a #Russian politician, he could not contemplate the life of a political émigré, increasingly out of touch and irrelevant.

He said he had to be in Russia, whatever the risk.

But the risk was huge.'