Russian dissident Alexi Navalny visited by wife Yulia, top aide at German hospital

Russian President Vlimir Putin’s staunch critic Alexei Navalny, who was recently transferred to a German hospital from Siberia, was visited by wife Yulia along with a top aide on Sunday, August 23. Navalny was flown to Germany on Saturday after doctors eventually allowed his transportation following a massive push from his family and supporters. He is w undergoing treatment at Berlin’s Charité hospital.

ncy sources have quoted hospital spokesperson Manuela Zingl saying that 44-year-old will be undergoing extensive diagstic tests and infirmed that doctor would t be commenting on his illness or treatment until results are evaluated. Yulia and aide Leonid Volkov visited Putin critic on Sunday but refused to speak with media. 

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Navalny is a political leer and a corruption investigator who is one of most public and fierce critics of Vlimir Putin. He h fallen ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia last week on Thursday, August 20. He was n mitted to a hospital in city of Omsk after plane me an emergency landing.

Even though doctors suggested ‘metabolic disorder’ due to low blood sugar causing Navalny to fall into a coma, his supporters argue that his tea cup at airport was poisoned. 

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Navalny's supporters blame Kremlin

Navalny’s supporters have even placed blame of both, his illness and delay in transfer to German hospital, on Kremlin. Russian health authorities on Sunday also said that as per tests that y h conducted so far, traces of poison were retrieved but y found an industrial chemical in skin and hair of 44-year-old.

A local newspaper reported that Navalny was under police surveillance before falling critically ill on August 20 and cited a law enforcement officer as its source.

Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh is reported to have said that it is a matter of shame that Russian doctors took so long to approve his flight to Germany even though documents were signed on Friday morning. Putin critic will be taken to Germany on Saturday morning. 

44-year-old’s wife Yulia Navalny h previously written to Russian President requesting her husband’s immediate transfer. Eventually, German doctors were ‘allowed’ to see Navalny and said y will be able to airlift patient out of local Siberian hospital to Berlin. But delay drew more backlash from Navalny’s supporters who alleged that it was ar plot by authorities to let poison become untraceable in his blood. 

(With AP inputs)

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