Alexei Navalny was taken to the Charite clinic in Berlin. This is stated in the message of the medical institution.

“The Berlin Medical University Charite confirms that it received Alexei Navalny for medical care. Comprehensive medical diagnostics is currently underway. Upon completion of the examination and after discussion with the family, the attending physicians will make a statement about the disease and further steps for treatment, ”the statement says.

The clinic added that the examination will take some time. “Therefore, we ask you to be patient; we will inform you as soon as the results appear, ”the message says.

Alexei Navalny was taken to Berlin from Omsk on the morning of August 22. Navalny was brought from the Omsk ambulance hospital No. 1 to the airport in an ambulance.

Navalny became ill on August 20 on board an S7 airline during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. The airliner urgently sat down at the Omsk airport, after which the unconscious man was hospitalized in a local hospital.

According to the German newspaper Bild, the patient's condition "was stable" during the flight.

Recall that the doctors initially objected to the transportation of Navalny due to his unstable condition. Later, when, according to the doctors, the patient's condition had stabilized, the relatives insisted on transferring him from the Omsk hospital to a German clinic.

  • Departure of the plane with Alexei Navalny from Omsk

In particular, on August 21, Anatoly Kalinichenko, the deputy head physician of the Omsk emergency hospital No. 1, said that, according to the encephalogram, the patient's condition does not pose a threat to life.

“The encephalogram indicates that Navalny's brain is in a stable state, now there is no immediate threat to life,” Kalinichenko said.

The medical institution reported that the main diagnosis is metabolic disorder, which provoked a sharp drop in blood sugar levels.

Also on August 22, the Ministry of Health of the Omsk Region said that alcohol and caffeine were found in Navalny's analyzes. They said that Omsk doctors are ready to provide their German colleagues with all the results of Navalny's examinations.

Earlier, a RT source said that by 11:00 local time on August 20, Navalny was in a coma. Also, information appeared in the media that Navalny was connected to a ventilator. 

On Friday, August 21, specialists from the National Medical and Surgical Center arrived in Omsk at the invitation of regional specialists and the patient's relatives.named after N.I. Pirogov and the National Medical Research Center for Neurosurgery named after Academician N.N. Burdenko, after which an extended consultation was held. 

The head doctor of the hospital, Alexander Murakhovsky, said that the tests carried out in the chemical-toxicological laboratory showed negative results for the tested spectrum of substances. 

The information about the alleged presence of toxic substances in the body of Alexei Navalny was also rejected by Anatoly Kalinichenko.

“No poisons or traces of their presence in the body have been identified. Probably, the diagnosis "poisoning" remains somewhere in the subcortex of our consciousness. But we do not believe that the patient suffered the poisoning, ”he said.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that 2-ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate was found on the washes from Navalny's hands, hair and clothes. 

“Since this substance, as a plasticizer, is added to polymers to increase elasticity, it is possible that in surface washes it could appear through Navalny's contact with similar objects, for example, through a plastic cup. Nevertheless, the information on the discovery of this chemical component was immediately reported to the doctors, ”the ministry said.

Prior to that, Alexander Murakhovsky also reported the discovery of a chemical component. The hospital stressed that 2-ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate is not a poison and cannot be poisoned.

The hospital stressed that the analyzes did not reveal oxybutyrates and barbiturates.

Earlier, the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation * Ivan Zhdanov announced the alleged discovery of a deadly substance. 

FBK press secretary Kira Yarmysh said that on the eve of the incident, Navalny did not drink alcohol and did not take any pills. According to S7 Airlines, the man did not eat or drink anything on board, RIA Novosti reports.

Before the flight, he drank black tea at the Tomsk airport. The videos show that the glass was brought to him by FBK employee Ilya Pakhomov.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Navalny's condition, expressed the hope that he would recover, and also announced the readiness of the Russian authorities to help in providing medical care abroad.

Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation of the FSBI National Medical and Surgical Center named after NI Pirogov "Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Boris Teplykh, who flew from Moscow to Omsk for the treatment of Alexei Navalny, on his Facebook page told about Navalny's condition after the incident.

“We urgently discussed with doctors in Omsk the measures of correction and diagnostics that need to be carried out while we are in the air. At the same time, we were in contact with the toxicology laboratories and received updates from them online. Upon arrival, we immediately went to the hospital in Omsk. The patient's condition has become a little more stable, ”he said.

Teplykh added that Navalny's family "chose the tactics of maximum attention," which is "normal for people in politics," but their entourage "played out an information bacchanalia."

“These are the people who complain about the state propaganda, here they have re-propagandized everyone. Doctors have no diagnosis - yeah, no, but all the versions that are being worked out were told to the family. Comas of unclear genesis - a whole panel demanding exceptions one after another, which is what happens, what is honestly said, and so on. etc. Everything is broadcast the other way around, ”the specialist noted.

* The Anti-Corruption Foundation is included in the register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 09.10.2019.