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Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's leading critics, was
airlifted to Germany for treatment in August after collapsing on
a plane in what Germany and other Western nations say was an
attempt to murder him with a Novichok nerve agent.
Russian authorities deny any involvement in the incident.
"It was never a question of whether to return or not. Simply
because I never left. I ended up in Germany after arriving in an
intensive care box for one reason: they tried to kill me,"
Navalny wrote on Instagram.
"(President Vladimir Putin's) servants are acting as usual by
fabricating new criminal cases against me. But I'm not
interested in what they're going to do to me. Russia is my
country, Moscow is my city and I miss it," he wrote.
Navalny said he had probably almost fully recovered his health.
His announcement came a day after court documents showed Russian
authorities had asked a court to jail him for allegedly breaking
the terms of a suspended sentence for what he says was a
politically-motivated conviction.
Russia's Federal Prison Service (FSIN) last month ordered
Navalny to immediately fly back, and to report at a Moscow
office or be jailed if he failed to return in time.
He and his allies have accused Russian authorities of trying to
scare him from returning ahead of parliamentary elections due to
be held in September.
Russia has said it has seen no evidence he was poisoned and has
denied trying to harm him. The Kremlin has said Navalny is free
to return to Russia at any time like any other Russian citizen.
(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy; writing by Tom Balmforth;
editing by Andrew Osborn)
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