Published 22:59 IST, August 20th 2020

Navalny's personal doctor not allowed to see him

Alexey Navalny's personal doctor and ally Anastasia Vasilyeva on Thursday said she wasn't allowed see the Russian opposition leader at a hospital in Omsk.

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Alexey Navalny's personal doctor and ally Anastasia Vasilyeva on Thursday said she wasn't allowed see Russian opposition leer at a hospital in Omsk.

Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight on Thursday morning.

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Vasilyeva told reporters outside hospital that she h t been given anymore information about

Navalny's condition beyond what was released to public.

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44-year-old critic of Russian President Vlimir Putin felt unwell on a flight back to Moscow from Tomsk, a city in Siberia, and was taken to a hospital after plane me an emergency landing in Omsk, Navalny's spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on Twitter.

Navalny's wife Yulia also went to hospital in afteron, but medical workers would t let her see her husband because she did t have ir marri certificate and patient did t consent, according to Yarmysh.

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Doctors at hospital remain tight-lipped about Navalny's diagsis and only said y were considering a variety of ories, including poisoning.

 

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22:59 IST, August 20th 2020