Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny thanks first responders amid recovery in Germany

Russian President Vlimir Putin’s critic and main opposition leer Alexei Navalny, who is in Germany recovering after being in a coma for over 30 days, on Friday, September 25 expressed “huge gratitude” to pilots and airport medical staff who gave him “ditional 15-20 hours of life”.

In a lengthy heartfelt post on Instagram with an im of him along with wife Yulia, Russian opposition leer thanked first responders or “unkwn friends” and “good people”. Alexei Navalny h collapsed on a plane to Moscow from Siberia on August 20 and spent over three weeks in a coma. 

While on his ro to stey recovery, Navalny thanked first responders at airport who “jammed a dose of atropine” into him after identifying “a toxic poisoning” that his supporters have claimed that it was done by government. However, when Russian opposition leer h spent first 48 hours in a hospital in Omsk, Russian doctors have said y found could t trace any signs of poisoning. After this, he was transferred to Charite hospital in Berlin where German chemical weapons experts determined that he was poisoned with Soviet-era nerve nt called vichok. se findings were furr corroborated by French and Swedish labs. 

Alexei Navalny wrote in Instagram post, “That is, pilots and first doctors simply gave me an ditional 15-20 hours of life. Everything that followed was very dramatic and deserves a separate story, but re would definitely be thing to tell if it were t for se guys. Thank you, good unkwn friends. You are good people.”

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Navalny’s bank accounts frozen, home seized

Meanwhile, Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh on Thursday, September 24 said that all his bank accounts have been frozen and his Moscow flat has been seized by authorities. According to a BBC report, Yarmysh claimed that Navalny’s assets were seized while he was in coma.

As per a video posted by Yarmysh on Twitter, Navalny’s assets were seized in connection to a case his anti-corruption foundation (FBK) was fighting against Moscow Schoolchild catering company which is owned by Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. Navalny has recently been discharged from hospital.

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