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Alexei Navalny, the Russian opponent who was poisoned on August 20, was released from the Charité hospital in Berlin where he had been hospitalized since August 22. The news came from the hospital in a press release. Navalny was hospitalized in Germany for 32 days, including 24 in intensive care. The hospital said doctors believe Navalny can make a full recovery, though they believe it is still too early to assess the long-term consequences of the poisoning.
Navalny, while hospitalized in the Charité after the poisoning, had spoken to a magistrate about what had happened to him and had also told him that he would like to return to Russia as soon as he is fully recovered. A senior German security official had briefed it and written it in New York Times. Navalny “is fully aware of his condition, he is fully aware of what happened and he is fully aware of where he is,” the official said on condition of anonymity. However, at the moment, Navalny’s fate after his discharge from hospital is unknown.
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Furthermore, on September 16, Navalny had written his first public statements since he was poisoned in Russia in an Instagram post. He had posted a photo of himself in the hospital and in the caption he had said that he was better and that as of September 14 he could breathe independently: “Yesterday I was able to breathe alone all day. I did not use any outside help. I loved. It’s an amazing process that many people take for granted.
On September 2, the German government said that toxicological tests by a special army laboratory had shown that the Russian opponent had been poisoned with a dangerous nerve agent, novichok, developed by Russia in the 1980s and 1990s and already used in the past to poison the opponents of President Vladimir Putin. German government spokesman Steffen Seiber also said on September 14 that laboratories in Sweden and France had confirmed that Navalny had been poisoned with novichok. Seiber had said that the analyzes by the Swedish and French laboratories had been carried out “independently”.
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