Putin critic Navalny has come out of coma - Berlin hospital

 

FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally to mark the 5th anniversary of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's murder and to protest against proposed amendments to the country's constitution, in Moscow, Russia February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin's Charite hospital said on Monday.

 

The hospital, which has been treating Navalny since he was airlifted to Germany after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight last month, said his condition has improved and he is being weaned off mechanical ventilation.

 

"It remains too early to gauge the potential long-term effects of his severe poisoning," Charite said in a statement.

 

Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was airlifted to Germany last month after collapsing on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow. It made an emergency landing in Omsk so that Navalny could be stretchered off.

 

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said her government has concluded Navalny, 44, was poisoned with Novichok, the same substance that Britain said was used against a Russian double agent and his daughter in an attack in England in 2018.

 

Moscow says it has seen no evidence he was poisoned.

 

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin's Charite hospital said in a statement on Monday. Francis Maguire reports.

 

The incident has put the future of Germany's Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia in doubt as a growing number of polticians call for support for the project to be withdrawn unless Russia helps to clear up the circumstances around Navalny's poisioning.

 

Merkel's spokesman said on Monday she does not rule out imposing sanctions on the pipeline in response to the suspected poisoning.

 

Novichok is a deadly group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet military in the 1970s and 1980s.

 

Britain says Russia used Novichok to poison former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the city of Salisbury two years ago. Russia has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attack, which the Skripals survived. A member of the public was killed.

 

(Reporting by Thomas Seythal and Caroline Copley; Editing by Toby Chopra and Angus MacSwan)

 

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I hope that brave courageous man makes a full speedy recovery 

I'm thinking announcing his recovery...puts another target on his back.  

 

Maybe announce an unexpected relapse...followed by passing away...allow him to go incognito...pen his disapproval of Putin under an assumed name...

2 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

I'm thinking announcing his recovery...puts another target on his back.  

 

Maybe announce an unexpected relapse...followed by passing away...allow him to go incognito...pen his disapproval of Putin under an assumed name...

Mission is already completed. The main mission is to quiet every critics and make them think twice. State terror against their own people. 

29 minutes ago, Tagged said:

Mission is already completed. The main mission is to quiet every critics and make them think twice. State terror against their own people. 

Kinda like Thai dissidents disappearing in the middle of the night?

43 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Kinda like Thai dissidents disappearing in the middle of the night?

Thats what the rumors says

All the big people who were criticizing Puttin have been taken down in the past, Navalny is just another victim. And I don't think he can recover completely after he went through.

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The Russian ambassador to the UK was summoned to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office today.

Russian ambassador summoned: FCDO statement

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Moscow says it has seen no evidence he was poisoned.

       Just like Moscow has no evidence, that Putin was behind a massif fraud scandal before he came to power, or the massif bomb explosions that killed many Russians in Moscow, in which Putin falsely blamed Chechnia, or passing a law that enemies of the state deserve to be killed, or even the fraudulent means by which Putin has made his wealth, let alone all the other disappeared or murdered opponents during his reign of power.

at least by now it should be clear that this novichok isn't doing a very good job killing people.

what happened to good old ricin?

it's puzzling that they use novichok which failed to kill its last marks and also is clearly traced to Russia.

55 minutes ago, tgw said:

at least by now it should be clear that this novichok isn't doing a very good job killing people.

what happened to good old ricin?

it's puzzling that they use novichok which failed to kill its last marks and also is clearly traced to Russia.

 

Maybe consider it as a trademark. Message out to all critics, dissenters.

14 hours ago, Tagged said:

The main mission is to quiet every critics and make them think twice. State terror against their own people. 

So primitive... The main mission is to stop Nord Stream-2.

 

7 hours ago, grumpy 4680 said:

let alone all the other disappeared or murdered opponents during his reign of power.

Names of opponents who were murdered, please.

 

5 hours ago, Morch said:

Maybe consider it as a trademark. Message out to all critics, dissenters.

Or may be attempt to create one more negative associacion related with the Russsia?

7 hours ago, Dmitry2222 said:

So primitive... The main mission is to stop Nord Stream-2.

 

Names of opponents who were murdered, please.

 

Or may be attempt to create one more negative associacion related with the Russsia?

So you assume some one else did this, to stop Nord Stream-2?

 

I thought about it, So please enlighten us, who did this to stop the stream 2? 

2 hours ago, Tagged said:

So you assume some one else did this, to stop Nord Stream-2?

No, it looks like a problem with the health of Navalniy used for political purposes. Do you belive that chemical warfare agents unable to kill a person? And after poisoning "KGB' gives Russian doctors to save life for Navalniy. Are you serious?

1 hour ago, Dmitry2222 said:

No, it looks like a problem with the health of Navalniy used for political purposes. Do you belive that chemical warfare agents unable to kill a person? And after poisoning "KGB' gives Russian doctors to save life for Navalniy. Are you serious?

Well, you know, how on earht can I know? 

 

And the chess game is on, and sometimes you just have to roll the dices even you know the outcome of it. But it is highly a very fortunate outcome for those who is against putin and the pipleline. 

12 hours ago, Dmitry2222 said:

Names of opponents who were murdered, please.

     If your Russian, you would have a better knowledge of all those killed, and start with the poisoned brolly incident in London years ago, but the Kremlins propaganda would obviously put you in denial.

1 hour ago, Tagged said:

after poisoning "KGB' gives Russian doctors to save life for Navalniy. Are you serious?

      Sending Russian doctors appeared to be a total waste of time, as they failed miserably, or deliberatly to identify the Novichoc as the cause, which then suggest's that they never would of cured him, sending him to Berlin was political, in the hope the world never found out.

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19 hours ago, tgw said:

at least by now it should be clear that this novichok isn't doing a very good job killing people.

what happened to good old ricin?

it's puzzling that they use novichok which failed to kill its last marks and also is clearly traced to Russia.

I remember the same point being made after the Salisbury attack.

The concencus was, as I recall, that the Russian security agencies were sending a message, and simply did not care what anyone thought, as long as the message was understood.

34 minutes ago, grumpy 4680 said:

      Sending Russian doctors appeared to be a total waste of time, as they failed miserably, or deliberatly to identify the Novichoc as the cause, which then suggest's that they never would of cured him, sending him to Berlin was political, in the hope the world never found out.

I think you credited me for something I did not wrote somehow ???? 

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We, the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the confirmed poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

Germany has briefed G7 partners on the fact that clinical and toxicological findings by German medical experts and a specialized laboratory of the German armed forces have determined that Mr. Navalny is the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve-agent of the “Novichok” group, a substance developed by Russia. Mr. Navalny is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital and remains in a serious condition. Our heartfelt thoughts are with his family and we hope for his full and speedy recovery.

Any use of chemical weapons, anywhere, anytime, by anybody, under any circumstances whatsoever, is unacceptable and contravenes the international norms prohibiting the use of such weapons. We, the G7 foreign ministers, call on Russia to urgently and fully establish transparency on who is responsible for this abhorrent poisoning attack and, bearing in mind Russia’s commitments under the Chemical Weapons Convention, to bring the perpetrators to justice.....

Russia: G7 Foreign Ministers' statement on Navalny poisoning

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