 Navalny, again harshly accused Putin. Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, marking the second anniversary of his incarceration on charges widely believed to be politically motivated, says he remains hopeful that thieves trying to steal the country from its citizens will fail and be dislodged from power. Navalny posted a statement on his social network accounts on January the 17th, exactly two years after he was arrested on his arrival from Germany where he was treated for poisoning with what European labs concluded was a Novichok-like Soviet-style nerve agent saying our poor motherland needs to be saved. She is robbed, wounded, dragged into an aggressive war against Ukraine and turned into a prison led by the most dishonest and deceitful villains. Any stance against this gang, even a symbolic one, that is possible for me in my current limited situation, is important, Navalny's post said. As I said two years ago, and I am saying now, Russia is my country, I am not going to give them my country, and I believe that the Merc will disappear. And there are many of us for sure, much more than the corrupt judges, lying propagandists and the Kremlin thieves. Navalny, who suffered a near-fatal poisoning in August 2020, that he blames on Russian security operatives acting at the behest of President Vladimir Putin, was arrested on January the 17th, 2021 and later handed a 21-22 year prison sentence for violating the terms of an earlier parole during his convalescence abroad. The Kremlin has denied any involvement in Navalny's poisoning.