• Russia: Alexei Navalny's coalition advances in the city where he was poisoned

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Russian opponent Alexei Navalny can already breathe without help and is ready to return to Russia to continue fighting.

The politician shared a photo this morning from the Berlin hospital where he is admitted, sitting in bed and surrounded by his family, showing a clear improvement after his alleged poisoning last month.

"Hi, I'm Navalny. I miss you all," he wrote in the caption to his Instagram followers.

"I still can't do almost anything, but

yesterday I was able to breathe all day on my own

. Totally on my own. I liked the experience, how incredible and understated this process, I recommend it."

Navalny, was seriously intoxicated in Siberia last month and was flown to Berlin.

Germany reported this week that laboratory tests in three countries have determined that it was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

Western governments have demanded an explanation from Russia.

Navalny has spoken to a German prosecutor about the attempt on his life and says he plans to return to Russia as soon as he recovers, a senior German security official revealed on Monday.

"He does not plan to go into exile in Germany. He

wants to return home to Russia and wants to continue his mission,

" added the source, quoted by 'The New York Times'.

Navalny's surroundings accuse the Russian authorities of being behind the attempt to kill him.

Moscow has called the accusations unfounded

, but avoided investigating the poisoning from the beginning.

Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov alleged today that Moscow is open to clarifying what happened to Navalny, but that it needs access to information about his case from Germany.

Russian doctors said at the time that Navalny, who spent days in a coma, could have suffered a metabolic imbalance due to a drop in blood sugar.

For the Russian government, the poisoning of Navalny is a

pretext to impose more sanctions against Moscow

, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.

In an interview with the RTVI channel, Lavrov denounced that "the western partners crossed all the limits of reason" and, in effect, they asked Russia to "confess" and suspended a trip planned for today to Berlin alleging changes in the agenda of the German part.

Asked if the incident could lead to new Western sanctions against Russia, the foreign minister agreed with those political analysts "convinced that, if there were no Navalny [case], they would have invented another reason to introduce additional sanctions."

Lavrov insists his country lacks a "legal basis" to open a criminal case for the Navalny assassination attempt.

"We have our own laws, according to which we cannot trust someone's words to open a criminal case. Certain procedures must be followed."

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