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Several media outlets, including the web portal The Insider, Der Spiegel magazine and the investigative news site Bellingcat, have contributed new information: According to anonymous sources, Navalny is almost completely recovered from being in a coma in a Berlin hospital after to hurry. fell ill and lost consciousness during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on 20 August.
On Tuesday, Navalny woke up from the induced coma and the respirator was disconnected. At the same time, security around Navalny was tightened, as he showed signs of beginning to remember what happened before losing consciousness on the plane. This is due to fears of a new assassination attempt on the 44-year-old opposition politician. The risk for those behind the assassination attempt is that Navalny may pinpoint the alleged perpetrators.
The threat is real. The traces of how others perceived as enemies of the Kremlin have been treated are terrifying: journalist Anna Politikovskaya was offered poisoned tea on a flight from Moscow to the North Caucasus in September 2014, but she survived. Two years later, she was shot dead outside her home.
Navalyjs Tales Character Kira Jarmysj He tried to soften the new information: “Regarding the latest material on Alexei; that he is aware and reacts to those around him, we already reported on Monday, but in general the article is very exaggerated and contains many factual errors, ”he wrote on Twitter.
The history of Navalny’s poisoning and recovery has been difficult to understand for several reasons: misinformation and secrecy.
In any case, there seems little doubt that Navalny is on the road to recovery. And that he himself will eventually be able to help clarify what happened to him at the Omsk airport.
The Russian doctors at the Siberian hospital who first treated Navalny immediately suspected poisoning, but later claimed that nothing had been found to indicate that he had been poisoned.
After a few days of international pressure, Russia allowed him to be evacuated to the Charité Hospital in Berlin. There, the medical team was able to establish relatively quickly that they had found traces of a novitiate at Navalny. They were, then, the same chemical weapons that the agents of the Russian military security service GRU used to poison the ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, Great Britain, just over two years ago.
According to the information it contains According to the German magazine Die Zeit, it was a modified, more advanced and deadly version of Novitjok, which Navalny was poisoned by putting in his tea or teacup.
The new novitjok mod will appear slower than some previously known variants. Traces of the poison were found on Navalny’s hands and in his blood, and in a bottle of water he drank from on the plane.
Die Zeit writes, referring to German security experts, that this operation, with such a deadly and complex poison, can only be carried out by an intelligence service, adding: “The preparation of such a poison requires a special laboratory, which does not it is accessible to common criminals. “
According to Die Zeit, the idea of the perpetrators was that Navalny would have died on board the plane, during the nearly five-hour flight from Tomsk to Moscow.
That he still survived was due to a series of happy circumstances: that the pilot quickly decided to make an emergency landing in Omsk and that the doctors already at the airport and in the ambulance on the way to the hospital gave Navalny injections with the antidote atropine. This is the same subject Navalny has dealt with in the Berlin Charité.
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