Navalny's office thanks Merkel for his flight to Berlin

chief of Staff of Russian opposition leer Alexei Navalny thanked German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her country's government for helping to transport seriously ill politician from Omsk to Berlin.

Navalny, one of Russian President Vlimir Putin’s fiercest critics, was taken ill on a flight to Moscow from Siberia on Thursday.

He was mitted to an intensive care unit in Siberian city of Omsk following a suspected poisoning that his supporters believe was engineered by Kremlin.

A plane with German specialists and equipment necessary to transfer Navalny to a top clinic in Berlin landed at Omsk airport on Friday morning. But doctors at hospital said his condition was too unstable to transport him.

Omsk medical team relented only after a charity that h organized medevac plane revealed that German doctors examined politician and said he was fit to be transported.

In a statement published on Facebook, Volkov said that Navalny's arrival to Berlin is an important st which "just yesterday morning seemed to be almost impossible".

Volkov points out that flight was paid by Russian businessman and founder of telecommunications company VimpelCom Dmitri Zimin.

Leonid Volkov thanked all people who actively supported Navalny's medical evacuation.