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A Russian doctor who has been missing in the meantime and in whose hospital the Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny was treated directly after a poison attack last year has turned up again.

Alexander Murachowski found himself out of a forest in the Siberian region of Omsk on Monday, the state agency Tass reported, citing authorities.

Murachowski, meanwhile Minister of Health in Omsk, did not return from a hunting trip on Friday. Now he is being treated in a hospital, but his condition is "normal". Around 100 security forces had been looking for him in the swampy forest area. According to the police, the doctor had left a hunting base in an off-road vehicle and was no longer seen. Murachowski left the forest on his own and made contact with residents of a village, the Russian news agency RIA reported. It is in normal condition, but as a precaution it is being examined in the Bolshevovsky hospital.

Until a few months ago, Murachowski headed the Omsk clinic, to which Navalny, who has meanwhile been detained in the penal camp, was brought after he collapsed on a domestic flight last August.

The 44-year-old opposition member was later flown to Germany and treated for weeks at the Berlin Charité.

According to studies by several laboratories, he was poisoned with the warfare agent Novichok.

At that time, Murachowski had only certified Navalny with a metabolic disorder.

Accusation of falsified diagnosis

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Navalny accused him of "falsifying" the diagnosis.

His supporters also accuse Murachowski of delaying Navalny's move to Germany.

In November, the doctor was promoted to Minister of Health of the Siberian Region.

After two other Omsk doctors from Navalny had died in the past few months, Murachowski's disappearance in the meantime had caused quite a stir in the Russian media.

Russia claims that there was no evidence of poisoning near Navalny and that it is therefore not initiating an investigation.

The EU and the US have repeatedly urged Russia to investigate the crime and imposed sanctions on the country.