Alexei Navalny out of German hospital after treatment for poisoning
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, told his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, that Navalny was an “internet troublemaker” who may have poisoned himself. Navalny made fun of the claim in an Instagram post. “I cooked up novichok in the kitchen, had a sip from the bottle in the plane and fell into a coma,” he wrote. “But Putin outplayed me … In the end, I spent 18 days in a coma like an idiot but failed to achieve my goal.”...
Alexei Navalny has been discharged from Berlin’s Charité hospital after spending 32 days as an inpatient, following what German authorities say was poisoning with a novichok nerve agent and with doctors suggesting he could make a full recovery. The hospital said in a statement on Wednesday morning that the Russian opposition politician’s condition had “improved sufficiently for him to be discharged from acute inpatient care”, and added that he had left on Tuesday. “Based on the patient’s progress and current condition, the treating physicians believe that complete recovery is possible,” the statement said, adding that it was still not clear what the potential long-term effects of the poison would be....
