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A man visibly weakened on a ladder: he wears a black T-shirt, gray sweatpants, a plaster on his arm, and blue rubber gloves on his hands. It’s Alexej Navalny, holding onto the railing. The poisoned Kremlin critic posted this photo of himself on Instagram and spoke again about his health.
In the message, the 44-year-old thanks the “brilliant doctors” of the Berlin Charité, who have been treating him since August 22. Through it, you can re-engage in modern life: you become someone who quickly uses Instagram again and “understands without thinking where a like belongs.” “Now I’m a guy whose legs shake when he walks down the stairs,” he wrote, matching the image of the steps.
Recently, however, he hadn’t even recognized people and didn’t know how to speak. “That drove me to despair, because I basically understood what the doctor wanted, but I didn’t know where to get the words from.” He was simply silent because he could not express his despair.
By his own account, Navalny still awaits a longer road to recovery. There are still many problems to solve. The phone feels like a stone in my hand. “And pouring water yourself is a real attraction.” The post received more than 200,000 likes in a few minutes.
The well-known critic of President Vladimir Putin collapsed on August 20 on an intra-Russian flight. Then the pilots landed in the Siberian Omsk, where he was treated at the local clinic. He was flown to Germany on August 22.
A special Bundeswehr laboratory discovered that Navalny had been poisoned with a chemical agent from the Novitschok group. According to the federal government, laboratories in France and Sweden confirmed this finding. However, Russian doctors had stated that they had found no signs of intoxication.
The poison was developed by Soviet scientists in the 1970s. The Moscow government rejects any blame for the health of the prominent opposition leader. The Navalny poisoning has caused serious diplomatic tensions between Berlin and Moscow.
According to his spokesman, Navalny wants to return to his homeland after recovering. “Other options have never been considered,” Kira Jarmysch wrote on Twitter. It’s strange when someone accepts something else. The New York Times had previously reported that Navalny had announced his plans to return to German authorities.
