Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and responsive from the coma, hospital says

(BERLIN) – Opposition leader Alexei Navalny Poisoned Russian has improved the condition, doctors allowed him to get out of an induced coma, the German hospital said Monday a deal. Navalny, a violent critic, high-profile Russian President Vladimir Putin, was transported to fall on a domestic flight in Russia on August 20 ill after Germany last month. German chemical weapons experts say tests show the 44-year-old was poisoned with nerve Soviet-era agents to ask the German government last week demanded that Russia investigate the case. “The patient from a pharmacological coma has been removed and be weaned from mechanical ventilation”, Charite in Berlin said in a statement. “He will respond to verbal stimuli. It is too early to measure the potential long-term consequences of his severe intoxication.” He added that the decision to publicly the details of his condition was made for the share in coordination with Navalny woman. Navalny was transported in an induced coma in hospital Berlin since moving to Germany on August 22 for treatment. The news of his gradual recovery came when the office German Chancellor Angela Merkel who might be ready for the fate of a controversial draft Russian-German gas pipeline to rethink – a sign of obstructionism Berlineren growing frustration with Moscow on the case. The German authorities said last week that the tests showed “evidence there is no doubt” that Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from Novichok group. The British authorities have identified the Soviet period Novichok like poison on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter used in England in 2018. Russia denied that the Kremlin was involved in poisoning Navalny and accused Germany evidence of intoxication to create otherwise they have called for the end of August. The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday that the reaction of Russia may determine whether Germany will change its long-standing support for the North Stream-2 gas pipeline, Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea port, bypassing the ‘Ukraine. “In addition, the Chancellor believes it is wrong no matter of rule,” said spokesman Steffen Seibert, Merkel told reporters Monday Maas has asked for comments. Previously, Merkel had insisted on “decoupling” of the case Navalny from the pipeline project on which strongly opposes the United States. In August, three US senators have threatened sanctions Republicans against the operator of a port in the Baltic Sea in Merkel’s constituency for his role as a stop for the construction of Nord Stream ships involved 2. Seibert warned that it would be premature, Moscow reacts to expect the issue within a few days but made clear that Berlin wants answers soon. “I can not express a clear, time-limited hold, unless we’re talking about certainly not months or end of the year,” he said. diplomats Germans have rejected a Russian proposal that Berlin was to blame for delays in the case of the investigation, noting that Navalny has been treated before all the evidence, witnesses to suspected poisoning in the Siberian city of Omsk, on August 20, “tracks, etc. are the place where the offense was committed, probably somewhere in Siberia, “the spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry Christofer Burger said. The co-leader of the opposition Green Party of Germany, Robert Habeck, urged the government to play a greater and “buried role” in the pipeline project. The project “Europe shares would be economically pointless and large, and it is wrong in conditions of security policy,” said Habeck. At the end of this “would mean that Russia can do whatever he wants.” Mikhail Ulyanov, the Russian ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, this signal must not be sent., Suspicions about the timing of requests on the pipeline with the case Navalny connection Espresso. “Coincidence suspected case Navalny and the final phase of the Nord Stream-2 construction desperately want to be closed, some were. I do not like conspiracy theories, but it is obvious that the tragic events with Navalny are very timely and useful to the enemy NS2” , he wrote on Twitter. ___ Geir Moulson in Berlin and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.
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