Putin Critic Navalny “Stable” After Transfer Arrival In Berlin

Putin Critic Navalny “Stable” After Transfer Arrival In Berlin

Tyler Durden

Sat, 08/22/2020 – 14:50

As speculation about a state-backed plot and Russia’s upcoming elections swirl, it appears Russian anti-corruption zealot Alexei Navalny has arrived in Germany in “worrying” condition now four days after his plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Siberia so that the opposition candidate could be treated for what he said was a deliberate poisoning.

Navalny, who has reportedly been in a coma since Thursday, remains in a “very critical”, though, somehow, still stable, condition since arriving in Germany for medical treatment after Russian officials allowed his family and his organization to intervene, according to Bloomberg.

Navalny was purportedly poisoned once before while in prison in Moscow, but officials poured cold water on his claims then, too.

“The good news is that he arrived in Berlin in a stable condition,” said Jaka Bizilj, co-founder of Cinema for Peace, which facilitated Navalny’s move to the Charite hospital. While there, Navalny will be examined by doctors with Germany’s biggest teaching hospital, who will need to try to help him and ascertain medical facts, said Bizilj.

Navalny was permitted by Russian authorities to leave the hospital in Omsk, Siberia, after his family, activists and international leaders appealed directly to President Vladimir Putin, who according to Russian media has never once mentioned his opposition rival by name.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government said it hopes Navalny’s treatment in Berlin will lead to “a complete recovery,” though she said little else to annoy Putin, given its reliance on Russian energy.

Manuela Zingl, a Charite spokeswoman, said by phone today that Navalny is already undergoing a “comprehensive diagnosis of his condition” and that more would be known soon. Navalny is “a strong man and went swimming the day before he fell ill,” said Bizijl, a Slovak film producer.

Though the doctors who treated Navalny in Omsk said only that his illness was likely due to some unspecified ‘metabolic condition’, a spokeswoman for Charite said the opposition leader was undergoing a “comprehensive diagnosis” of his condition.  Doctors who treated Navalny in Siberia said traces of chemicals were found on his hands and in his hair.

So it looks like they are determined to find he had been poisoned after all?

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