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The patient gradually withdraws from mechanical ventilation and reacts when spoken to. The Charité announced this on Monday in Berlin. Navalny’s health has improved, the message also said.
Navalny fell into a coma on a flight over Russia on August 20 and was later transferred to Berlin Charité at the insistence of his family. Following investigations by a special Bundeswehr laboratory, the German government said it considered it proven beyond any doubt that Navalny had been poisoned with the military neurotoxin Novitschok. Russia denies being involved in the case of the 44-year-old opposition member. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov spoke again on Monday of “absurd attempts” to link the Russian government with him.
The request for legal assistance will be approved by the German side.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office had requested legal aid in Germany. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) had said in the ARD that the German side would agree to this. According to Peskow, Moscow also sees no reason why Berlin should not cooperate in the case.
The Navalny case has also sparked a discussion about halting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.
The Russian opposition has uncovered several corruption scandals in their home country.
