The Kremlin said Wednesday September 23 that the main Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, released from hospital in Berlin after surviving poisoning in Novichok according to his doctors, was "
free
" to return to Russia if he wished.
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"
Regarding his return to Moscow, he is free, like any Russian citizen, to do so at any time,
" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, quoted by Russian news agencies.