Russia's Navalny says he's now more than 'technically alive'

 Russian opposition leer Alexei Navalny said he is recovering his verbal and physical abilities at German hospital where he is being treated for suspected nerve nt poisoning but that he at first felt despair over his condition.

Navalny, most visible opponent of Russian President Vlimir Putin, fell ill on a domestic flight to Moscow on Aug. 20 and 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 on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England, in 2018.

Navalny was kept in an induced coma for more than a week while being treated with an antidote. He said in a Saturday post on Instagram that once he was brought out of coma, he was confused and couldn't find words to respond to a doctor's questions.

“Although I understood in general what doctor wanted, I did t understand where to get words. In what part of he do y appear in?" Navalny wrote in post, which accompanied a photo of him on a staircase. “I also did t kw how to express my despair and, refore, simply kept silent.”

w I'm a guy whose legs are shaking when he walks up stairs, but he thinks: 'Oh, this is a staircase! y go up it. Perhaps we should look for an elevator, Navalny said.

And before, I would have just stood re and stared,ded Navalny.

doctors treating him at Berlin's Charite hospital “turned me from a 'technically alive person' into someone who has every chance to become Highest Form of Being in Modern Society again — a person who can quickly scroll through Instagram and without hesitation understands where to put likes,” he wrote.

Kremlin has repeatedly said that before Navalny's transfer to Berlin, Russian labs and a hospital in Siberian city of Omsk found sign of a poisoning. Moscow has called for Germany to provide its evidence and bristled at urging of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and or Western leers to answer questions about what happened to politician.

“re is too much absurdity in this case to take anyone at ir word,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

Peskov also accused Navalny's colleagues of hampering a Russian investigation by taking items from his hotel room out of country, including a water bottle y claimed h traces of nerve nt. Navalny's colleagues said that y removed bottle and or items from hotel room in Siberian city of Tomsk Siberia and brought m to Germany as potential evidence. because y didn't trust Russian authorities to conduct a proper probe. 

(Im Credits:Twitter/navalny)