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Navalny stands up again and thanks the “brilliant doctors” of the Charité
Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny, who was being treated for severe poisoning in Berlin, has posted a new photo of himself, standing on a staircase in Berlin’s Charité University Hospital. The 44-year-old thanked the clinic’s “brilliant doctors” in the message posted on Instagram on Saturday. “You have turned me from a ‘technically alive person’ into someone who has every chance of becoming a higher way of life again in modern society,” he wrote. He becomes someone who quickly returns to Instagram and “understands without thinking where a like belongs.”
“Now I’m a guy whose legs shake when he walks down the stairs,” he wrote, matching the image of the steps. He clings to the railing with blue gloves. However, not long ago he had not even recognized people nor understood how to speak. “That drove me to despair, because I basically understood what the doctor wanted, but I didn’t know where to get the words from.” He was simply silent because he could not express his despair.
By his own account, Navalny still awaits a longer road to recovery. There are still many problems to solve. The phone feels like a stone in my hand. “And pouring water yourself is a real attraction.” The post received more than 200,000 likes in a few minutes.
Navalny has been treated at the Charité since August 22. He was in an artificial coma for weeks. According to information from special laboratories, he was poisoned with a nerve agent from the internationally banned Novitschok group. Russia denies the accusations of having anything to do with the case.
The Kremlin recently rejected statements by Navalny’s team that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s opponent was allegedly poisoned at a hotel in Tomsk, Siberia. According to their own information, the team had seized a bottle of water there, in which a laboratory in Germany found traces of Novichok. After leaving Tomsk, he collapsed on August 20 on a flight to Moscow. The plane then landed in Omsk, where Navalny had been treated until his rescue flight to Germany. (aeg / sda / dpa)
