Victim of poisoning in Russia according to Berlin, the opponent to the Kremlin Alexeï Navalny was released from an artificial coma and reacts to the word, announced, Monday, September 7, the Berlin hospital of Charity.
His "state of health [...] improved", underlined the hospital, one of the most famous in Europe, while reaffirming that the long-term sequelae "of this heavy poisoning" to a neurotoxic of Novichok type were "not to be excluded".
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Main opponent of the Kremlin, Alexeï Navalny, 44, was "unequivocally" poisoned in Russia, during an election tour, by a Novichok-type nerve agent.
This substance, designed in Soviet times for military purposes, has already been used against the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in 2018 in England.
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Berlin and other Western countries point the finger at Russian authorities and urge them to provide an explanation.
The standoff hardened on Sunday, with Germany setting an ultimatum of a few days in Moscow to "clarify what happened".
Alexei Navalny, known for his anti-corruption investigations targeting the Russian political elite, was ill on August 20 and was urgently hospitalized in Omsk in Siberia, before being evacuated to Berlin after a standoff between his entourage and the Russian doctors.
With AFP
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