He flew in from Berlin but was led away by police after reaching passport control.

Western leaders have condemned his arrest from Moscow.

His Steve Rosenberg.

He'd only bean back on Russian soil a few minutes when Alexander finally was told he was being detained.

A kiss goodbye for his wife, Yulia, then the Kremlin's fiercest critic, was led away.

Earlier, there were chaotic scenes at a different Moscow airport where Mr the Violence flight had been scheduled to land.

Police detained his supporters.

It's a disgrace, they chant inside.

The arrivals are filled with right police who cleared the terminal.

But in the end, the plane was rerouted toe another airport.

Alexander violently.

This isn't quite home sweet home.

As you can see from the welcome party.

He's back in the country where last summer he was poisoned, allegedly by a group of undercover Russian security agents, a country he has accused of state terrorism.

Five months ago, Aleksei Navalny fell sick on an internal Russian flight in a coma.

He was airlifted to Berlin for urgent treatment.

Toxicology reports from Germany, France and Sweden confirmed the opposition activists had been poisoned by Na'vi Chuck Nerve agent.

Last month, President Putin dismissed accusations that the Russian state was behind the attack on Mr Navalny.

If our agents had wanted to kill him, he said, they have finished the job e.

But for weeks, the authorities here have been dropping not so subtle hints that Mr Should stay away from Russia, hints he decided to ignore when he left Berlin.

A citizen of Russia, he says, I have the absolute right to return home.

He did come back to Russia.

But tonight Alexander Baillie is not at home with his family.