Russian Alexei Navalny opposition leader was poisoned and they are already in intensive care

Russian Alexei Navalny opposition leader was poisoned and they are already in intensive care

MOSCOW – Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator unit in hospital intensive care for sick attacked by suspected poisoning that its allies believe is linked to his political activities. The 44-year-old enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the flight back to Moscow from Tomsk felt uncomfortable, a city in Siberia, and was taken to a hospital after the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Navalny said spokesman Kira Yarmysh on Twitter. “And ‘in coma in critical condition,” he said on Twitter. He also told the Ekho Moskvy radio station that sweating during Navalny flight and asked her to talk to him so that he could “focus on the sound of a voice.” Then he went to the bathroom and lost consciousness. Yarmysh said the politician must be something worn by tea drank in an airport bar before boarding early Thursday. “Doctors say, the toxin was rapidly absorbed with hot liquid,” he tweeted, adding that the team Navalny called the police to the hospital. Anatoliy Kalinichenko, deputy head of the hospital Omsk, where the politician is being treated, told reporters that Navalny was in serious but stable condition. Kalinichenko said doctors are considering a variety of diagnostic, including the poisoning, but a law to prevent, citing doctors to disclose confidential patient information refused to provide details. Tass news agency reported that state police were not deliberately poisoning under review, citing an unnamed source in law enforcement, he said “it is not unlikely that he drunk or something yesterday are consumed.” Yarmysh on Twitter bristled at that suggestion: “Sure. It ‘s just the tea was bad. This is what the state propaganda is doing now – screaming that it was not a deliberate poisoning, has (done something) by chance, he (did something) himself. ” Last year, Navalny was taken to a hospital from the prison where he is serving a sentence for an arrest, with what was said that his team suspected poisoning. Doctors later he said had a serious allergic attack and let him go back to jail the next day. Navalny of the Foundation for the fight against corruption has been exposed from officials of the Government of the transplant, including some at the highest level. Last month, it had to shut down the foundation for a financially devastating lawsuit filed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close ties to the Kremlin. Belarus President authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko has never accused Navalny last week to organize what has to mass protests was against his re-election, the next ex-Soviet Russia shaken by August 9, which does not provide any evidence, and this statement was one of the many blame foreign forces for the unrest. Like many other opposition politicians in Russia, Navalny was often arrested by law enforcement authorities and harassed by pro-Kremlin groups. In 2017, it was attacked by some men who antiseptic thrown in my face, damaging one eye. The most important member of the Russian opposition, made a campaign Navalny challenge Putin in the 2018 presidential election, but was prevented from running. He set up a network of polling stations in Russia and since then has seating opposition candidates ahead of regional elections, members of the Russian ruling party United Russia challenging. One of his employees in Khabarovsk, a city in Russia’s Far East, the governor of the region, it was only last week engulfed in mass protests against the arrest was arrested during a demonstration after the call to strike. In an interview with Ekho Moskvy, Yarmysh said he believes that the suspected poisoning was for the regional election campaign this year connected. Vyacheslav Gimadi, an attorney with Navalny of the foundation, said that the team asks open a criminal probe Russian Investigative Committee. “There is no doubt that Navalny was poisoned because of his political position and activity,” he said in a tweet Gimadi on Thursday. Navalny is not be the first opposition with a mysterious poisoning. In 2018, Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot in an intensive care unit after a suspected poisoning over and had flown for treatment in Berlin. The opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was showing signs of toxicity hospitalized twice -. In 2015 and 2017. Both have said they believe that they have been poisoned for their image the
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