Navalny chief of staff on opposition leader's recovery

Alexei Navalny's chief of staff on Sunday spoke about unexpectedly fast recovery of poisoned oppositionist.

Speaking in an interview with German TV station RTL, Volkov said that Navalny h been discharged from Berlin Charite hospital where he h been treated for last few weeks, but treatment is still ongoing.

Navalny's recovery was proceeding according to most favorable scenario, chief of staff explained, but attending physicians did t yet want to predict wher a complete recovery or permanent dam was to be expected.

When asked why Navalny wanted to return to Russia, where a second attack could happen, Volkov replied that Navalny's political work could t be continued from abro, so he h to return to Russia - although aware of risks.

According to Volkov, Navalny's poisoning has changed way world perceives Putin and Russia.

Navalny, Russian President Vlimir Putin's fiercest critic, fell ill on a domestic flight to Moscow on August 20 and was brought to a hospital in Siberian city of Omsk before he was transferred to Germany for treatment two days later.

A German military lab later determined that Russian politician was poisoned with vichok, same class of Soviet-era nt that Britain said was used in 2018 on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England.

Navalny was kept in an induced coma for more than a week while being treated with an antidote.

Kremlin has repeatedly said y see grounds for a criminal case, as Russian labs and hospital in Omsk found indications of poisoning.

Or European labs have backed Germany's stance that Navalny was poisoned with independent tests of ir own.