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- Russian Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has ended his artificial coma.
- The patient gradually withdraws from mechanical ventilation and reacts when spoken to. This was announced by the Berlin Charité.
- According to the federal government, Navalny was poisoned.
“The patient’s artificial coma, which was being maintained with medication, was over,” announced the Berlin Charité. “The patient is gradually withdrawn from mechanical ventilation.” Reacts to speech. The long-term consequences of severe poisoning are not yet known.
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Berlin considers poisoning proven
Navalny collapsed on August 20 on a Russian domestic flight. He was first treated in Omsk, Siberia, before being transferred to Germany at the insistence of his family. Russian doctors had stated at the time that they had found no evidence of poisoning.
The Berlin Charité, which has been treating Navalny since August 22, announced last week that the 44-year-old had been poisoned with a Novichok group chemical. The agent of war was developed in times of the Soviet Union.
The federal government considers it unequivocally proven that Navalny was poisoned with a neurotoxin from the Novitschok group.
Russia rejects shared responsibility
The Russian government rejects any responsibility for the state of Navalny. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov spoke again on Monday of “absurd attempts” to link the Russian government with him.
The federal government demands clarification and has threatened sanctions within the framework of the European Union. According to government spokesman Steffen Seibert, Merkel is not ruling out the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea. However, it is too early to make a decision.
