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07 September 2020Aleksei Navalny came out of a pharmacological coma today and his health conditions have improved: this was announced by the Berlin hospital of Charitè, where the Russian opponent is hospitalized.
According to the doctors, Navalny responds to verbal stimuli and gradually gets used to doing without the ventilator.
In a note, also published on social networks, it is emphasized, however, that "long-term consequences of the serious poisoning" that the opponent would have suffered in Russia cannot be excluded.
Navalny, who fell ill during an internal Russian flight last August 20, according to experts, was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichock, which prompted the German government to pressure Russia to investigate. case.
The 44-year-old opponent was transferred to Germany on 22 August.
German authorities said last week that tests showed "no doubt evidence" that he had been poisoned with this substance.
1/2 🇬🇧 The condition of Alexei #Navalny has improved.
The patient has been removed from his medically induced coma and is being weaned off mechanical ventilation.
He is responding to verbal stimuli.
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (@ChariteBerlin) September 7, 2020