Alexei Navalny doctors refuse to let him leave Russia / How Navalny was left fighting for his life / The long history of poisoned Kremlin critics
Doctors treating Alexei Navalny for a suspected poisoning have refused to allow him to be taken out of the country for treatment, saying he is too sick to be moved, the Putin critic’s press secretary has said. The decision was announced by doctors just an hour before a plane was due to arrive to evacuate Navalny to a hospital in Germany. Navalny is currently in a coma in a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk. “The plane we have organised for Alexei’s evacuation should land in an hour,” wrote Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s press secretary, who is currently at the hospital. “The ban on transporting Navalny is an attempt on his life.”
Alexei Navalny at a rally in February 2020. Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition figure, unconscious in hospital
The long history of poisoned Kremlin critics
The hospital’s chief doctor told Navalny’s team that his condition was “unstable” without giving further details. The doctor then locked himself in his office and refused to take further questions. “Leaving [Navalny] in the Omsk hospital without equipment, with a still undiagnosed illness in his current state is deadly dangerous,” she wrote on Twitter....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/alexei-navalny-plane-leaves-germany-to-transport-putin-critic-after-suspected-poisoning
A cup of tea, then screams of agony: how Alexei Navalny was left fighting for his life
Navalny is Russia’s most prominent opposition activist. He made no secret of why he had flown to Tomsk, known for its wooden mansions and enlightened university. The goal, he wrote, was to back independent candidates ahead of local elections next month. And, of course, to kick out the “crooks” from Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party.
Alexei Navalny at a rally in February 2020. Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition figure, unconscious in hospital
The long history of poisoned Kremlin critics
The hospital’s chief doctor told Navalny’s team that his condition was “unstable” without giving further details. The doctor then locked himself in his office and refused to take further questions. “Leaving [Navalny] in the Omsk hospital without equipment, with a still undiagnosed illness in his current state is deadly dangerous,” she wrote on Twitter....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/alexei-navalny-plane-leaves-germany-to-transport-putin-critic-after-suspected-poisoning
A cup of tea, then screams of agony: how Alexei Navalny was left fighting for his life
Navalny is Russia’s most prominent opposition activist. He made no secret of why he had flown to Tomsk, known for its wooden mansions and enlightened university. The goal, he wrote, was to back independent candidates ahead of local elections next month. And, of course, to kick out the “crooks” from Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party.
On Thursday morning he made his way to Tomsk’s Bogashevo airport for a flight back to Moscow. Navalny was travelling with his press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, and a couple of aides. At the airport he ordered a cup of black tea at the Vienna coffee house. He sat down. Navalny may be barred from state television but he is nonetheless a celebrity figure in Russia. Another passenger, the local DJ Pavel Lebedev, snapped a photo of Navalny – paper cup in hand, about to sip his drink....
