Alexei Navalny improves and stands up. Macron against Putin: "It was an attempted murder"

• Navalny: France and Sweden confirm, poisoned with Novichok

• Navalny came out of an artificial coma.

  Doctors: "Reacts to questions"

• Navalny, Pompeo: "The order to poison him came from high-ranking Russian officials"

• Navalny case, Moscow summons the German ambassador.

  UN calls for an investigation

• Navalny case: Russian police want to question him in Germany

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14 September 2020Alexei Navalny's conditions improve: the Russian dissident can at certain times even get out of bed.

This was reported to the Charité in Berlin, where he has been hospitalized since 22 August for Novichok poisoning.

Doctors point out in the note that Navalny is no longer attached to respirators. 

Meanwhile, the Berlin government has confirmed that the French and Swedish laboratories have confirmed that the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a chemical agent from the Novichok group.

This was announced by the spokesman for the Berlin government Steffen Seibert, calling the poisoning of Navalny "a serious violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention".       

Seibert then added that, with the support of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, France and Sweden have been able to independently confirm the use of Novichok for the killing of Navalny.        

 The French president, Emmanuel Macron, today denounced an "assassination attempt" of the Russian opponent Alexei Navalny speaking on the phone with the head of the Kremlin.

According to the Elysée, Macron asked Vladimir Putin that "full light be shed quickly" on Navalny's "assassination attempt", calling it "poisoning".

"A clarification on the part of Russia is necessary - said Macron, quoted by the Elysée - in the framework of a credible and transparent investigation".

France, added President Macron, shares, on the basis of its own analyzes, the conclusions of several of its European partners on poisoning with the neurotoxic agent Novitchok. "

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Vladimir Putin, during a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, declared that to discover the real circumstances of Alexey Navalny's illness it will be necessary "the transfer of biomaterials to Russia" by German specialists, an "official conclusion" based on the results of the analyzes made on Navalny and to establish "a joint working mechanism" with Russian doctors, the Kremlin said. "It was agreed to help determine the parameters of a possible interaction with European partners in this regard", reads the note.