Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny says he was detained by police in Moscow shortly after he left his apartment for a run.In a short video filmed at a Moscow police station and posted on the social-media site Instagram on July 24, Navalny said he spotted a special police task-force van nearby as he began to exercise and was quickly apprehended.He did not say if he was informed as to why police had detained him as he went for a jog and to buy flowers for his wife.”They are right when say that sports is sometimes not good for you. I just left home today for jogging a bit and to buy flowers for my wife as it is her birthday today,” Navalny said.“Now, like a fool, I am standing here in the police station in my jogging shorts. Yulia, sorry, it turned out this way,” he added.The Kremlin foe was released from jail on July 11 after serving a 10-day sentence for attending an unsanctioned protest in Moscow.He has been sentenced to jail about a dozen times in recent years and has served more than 200 days in incarceration.
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