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Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny unconscious in intensive care after suspected poisoning
"Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in intensive care after a suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman said Thursday.
The anti-corruption campaigner and staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin fell ill while on a flight back to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk, Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter.
Yarmysh said Navalny began to feel unwell after drinking tea that appeared to have been laced with a toxin. Russia's state news agency Tass confirmed Navalny is being treated for poisoning in a hospital in Omsk, where his plane made an emergency landing. Citing the chief doctor at the hospital, Tass said he is in grave condition.
He has been placed on a ventilator.
Navalny, 44, is the effective face of political opposition to Putin and he has been in and out of jail in recent for his activism against Russia's longtime leader.
Last year, Navalny claimed he was poisoned while serving a short jail sentence. Doctors said he had a severe allergic reaction to an unknown substance. He was left partially blind in one eye after a pro-Putin activist attacked him with a chemical in 2017.
Navaly attempted to run against Putin in Russia's 2018 presidential elections but was barred from participating over a fraud conviction he alleged was politically motivated.
Many of Putin's opponents – journalists, politicians, former associates – have died in violent or suspicious circumstances, both at home and abroad."
"British authorities also concluded that Alexander Litvinenko, another former Russian spy, was poisoned to death at the Kremlin's behest in a London hotel in 2006.
Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist who was a strident critic of the Kremlin and exposed Russian human rights abuses, was murdered in 2006.
Boris Berezovsky, an oligarch who was once Putin's right-hand man, was found hanged at his mansion outside London in 2013.
Russian opposition activist Vladmir Kara-Murza, a member of the pro-democracy group Open Russia, says he believes attempts were made to poison him in 2015 and 2017. A laboratory later found elevated levels of mercury, copper, manganese and zinc. "
"Earlier this year, two Russian doctors died and another was seriously injured in mysterious falls from hospital windows after they reportedly came under pressure over working conditions in the coronavirus pandemic."
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny unconscious in intensive care after suspected poisoning
"Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in intensive care after a suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman said Thursday.
The anti-corruption campaigner and staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin fell ill while on a flight back to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk, Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter.
Yarmysh said Navalny began to feel unwell after drinking tea that appeared to have been laced with a toxin. Russia's state news agency Tass confirmed Navalny is being treated for poisoning in a hospital in Omsk, where his plane made an emergency landing. Citing the chief doctor at the hospital, Tass said he is in grave condition.
He has been placed on a ventilator.
Navalny, 44, is the effective face of political opposition to Putin and he has been in and out of jail in recent for his activism against Russia's longtime leader.
Last year, Navalny claimed he was poisoned while serving a short jail sentence. Doctors said he had a severe allergic reaction to an unknown substance. He was left partially blind in one eye after a pro-Putin activist attacked him with a chemical in 2017.
Navaly attempted to run against Putin in Russia's 2018 presidential elections but was barred from participating over a fraud conviction he alleged was politically motivated.
Many of Putin's opponents – journalists, politicians, former associates – have died in violent or suspicious circumstances, both at home and abroad."
"British authorities also concluded that Alexander Litvinenko, another former Russian spy, was poisoned to death at the Kremlin's behest in a London hotel in 2006.
Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist who was a strident critic of the Kremlin and exposed Russian human rights abuses, was murdered in 2006.
Boris Berezovsky, an oligarch who was once Putin's right-hand man, was found hanged at his mansion outside London in 2013.
Russian opposition activist Vladmir Kara-Murza, a member of the pro-democracy group Open Russia, says he believes attempts were made to poison him in 2015 and 2017. A laboratory later found elevated levels of mercury, copper, manganese and zinc. "
"Earlier this year, two Russian doctors died and another was seriously injured in mysterious falls from hospital windows after they reportedly came under pressure over working conditions in the coronavirus pandemic."
