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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he is regaining his verbal and physical abilities at the German hospital where he is being treated for suspected nerve agent poisoning, but was initially desperate about his condition.
Navalny, the most visible opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on a domestic flight to Moscow on August 20 and was flown to Germany for treatment two days later. A German military laboratory later determined that the Russian politician was poisoned with Novichok, the same kind of Soviet-era agent that Britain said was used against a former Russian spy and his daughter in England, in 2018.
Navalny remained in an induced coma for more than a week while he was being treated with an antidote. He said in a Saturday Instagram post that once he came out of a coma, he was confused and couldn’t find the words to answer a doctor’s questions.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks down the stairs at a hospital in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday. He is being treated in a German hospital for suspected nerve agent poisoning, he says on social media that he is regaining verbal and physical skills.
“Although I generally understood what the doctor wanted, I didn’t understand where to get the words from. In what part of the head do they appear? “Navalny wrote in the post, which accompanied a photo of him on a staircase.” I also did not know how to express my despair and therefore I simply kept silent.
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“Now I’m a guy whose legs shake when he goes upstairs, but he thinks, ‘Oh, this is a ladder! They raise it. Maybe we should find an elevator, ‘”Navalny said. “And before, I would have just stood there watching.”
The doctors who treated him at the Charite hospital in Berlin “turned me from a ‘technically alive person’ into someone who has every chance of being the highest way of being in modern society again, a person who can move quickly through Instagram and without hesitation know where to put likes, “he wrote.
The Kremlin has repeatedly said that before Navalny’s move to Berlin, Russian laboratories and a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk found no signs of poisoning. Moscow has asked Germany to provide its evidence and was enraged at the call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other Western leaders to answer questions about what happened to the politician.
“There is too much absurdity in this case to take anyone’s word for it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
Peskov also accused Navalny’s colleagues of hindering a Russian investigation by removing items from his hotel room from the country, including a bottle of water that they said carried traces of the nerve agent.
Navalny’s colleagues said they removed the bottle and other items from a hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk Siberia and brought them to Germany as potential evidence. because they did not trust the Russian authorities to conduct a proper investigation.
