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Comatose Russian Opposition Leader Medevaced to Germany

Alexei Navalny’s family said he was not getting the treatment he needed in Siberia after he fell ill after the suspected poisoning of his tea.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was whisked out of Siberia to Berlin on Saturday morning after he fell ill due to suspected poisoning of his tea on Thursday. Navalny’s relatives insisted he be transferred after the deputy chief physician at the hospital where he was being treated claimed that Navalny was not poisoned, despite suggestions to the contrary. “We don’t believe that the patient suffered poisoning,” Anatoly Kalinichenko told local journalists Friday. “Poisons or traces of their presence in the body have not been identified. Probably, the diagnosis of ‘poisoning’ remains somewhere in the back of our minds. But we do not believe that the patient suffered poisoning.” Navalny’s relatives believe that the doctors are being coached by allies of President Vladimir Putin, whom Navalny has strongly criticized. The 44-year-old is in a coma but in stable condition.