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Russian Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has woken up from an artificial coma after the poison attack and is responding. Reports of the Berlin Charité.
According to the German government, Navalny was poisoned by the Novitschok neurotoxin.
Photo: Pavel Golovkin (Keystone)
Russian Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is being treated at the Berlin Charité, is doing better. Doctors ended the artificial coma. The Charité announced this on Monday in Berlin.
The 44-year-old is now being gradually withdrawn from mechanical ventilation and reacting to speech. Long-term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out. The Navalny case has also sparked a discussion about halting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.
Navalny fell into a coma on a flight over Russia on August 20 and was later transferred to the Charité in Berlin at the insistence of his family. Following investigations by a special laboratory of the German Federal Armed Forces, the German government had announced that it considered it proved beyond any doubt that Navalny with the Novichok military neurotoxin poisoned has been.
Russia denies involvement in case of 44-year-old opponent. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov spoke again on Monday of “absurd attempts” to link the Russian government with him. Navalny uncovered several corruption scandals in his home country.
Germany wants to accept the request for legal aid
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office had requested legal aid in Germany. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas had said in 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 Kremlin hopes that Germany will soon provide information on the poisoning of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. In view of the waves that hit the issue, Moscow expects details of the case in the coming days, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, according to state agency Ria Novosti. “We are satisfied.” Internationally, there is mounting pressure on Russia to investigate the poisoning of the Kremlin critic. So far, “preliminary investigations” are underway.
Meanwhile, it is also being discussed whether it can be Nord-Stream-2 project In response to poisoning you must stop or suspend Navalnys. The pipeline will be built across the Baltic Sea and will transport natural gas from Russia to Germany.
Merkel is also thinking about the effects in Nord Stream 2
The German government leaves the future of the project open and increases pressure on Russia. It is still too early to decide whether the case will have consequences for the construction of the Baltic Sea pipeline, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday. Chancellor Angela Merkel also believes that it is wrong to rule something out.
Rather, it joins the warning words of Foreign Minister Maas. Maas had said in an interview: “I don’t expect the Russians to force us to change our position on Nord Stream 2.” He thinks it is wrong to rule out any effect on the pipeline from the start.
So far, Germany has strongly urged Russia to clarify, but has avoided a link to the European-Russian gas project. Seibert stressed that there was a clear expectation that Russia would answer serious questions about the Navalny case. However, this cannot be expected in a few days.
