Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny will survive 'poison attack', says flight organiser Bizilj

Kremlin critic and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny will survive health scare after falling critically ill due to suspected poisoning, said founder of NGO, which sent an air ambulance to Siberia, told a German tabloid. Jaka Bizilj, founder of Cinema for Peace Foundation, said that though Russian opposition leer will survive “poison attack”, he won’t be able to get to political work for months, highlighting "worrying overall situation."

Kira Yarmysh, press secretary of 44-year-old Russian leer, tweeted on August 24 that re are new details about Navalny's health at moment, urging everyone to be patient and t react to rumours and fake news. She furr ded that family of Putin’s critic has t authorised anyone to make statements in press about his health on ir behalf.

Navalny was flown to Germany as doctors allowed him, after a brief reluctance, to be airlifted from Russia for furr treatment. Yarmysh h shared a photograph on Twitter, saying Navalny was airlifted from Omsk on August 22 along with his wife Yulia Navalnaya who h requested Russian President Vlimir Putin to approve transfer of her husband from local Siberian hospital to Berlin.

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Citing Navalny’s ‘unstable’ health condition, Russian authorities h denied permission to airlift him on a German plane with specialist doctors for furr treatment in Berlin. Georgy Alburov, a researcher at Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said that only reason t to let Putin’s critic go on a plane with specialists is to deny him high-quality medical support and wait until traces of poison disappear.  

Suspected poisoning

top aides of Russia’s opposition figure have suspected a possible poisoning since Navalny has been a staunch critic of Putin and his allies. However, hospital in Omsk, where Navalny was earlier mitted, said that doctors found traces of poison in his blood and denied disclosure of full diagsis.

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