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At the Berlin Charité, doctors have been fighting for weeks for the life of Putin’s critic Alexej Navalny (44). The suspicion: the investigative journalist and activist was poisoned. While drinking tea. From the Russian government. The Kremlin denies it, the West is outraged. Navalny is the Kremlin’s best-known critic and has been the victim of attacks on several occasions.
The next attack occurred in mid-August. Navalny was on the flight home after a campaign when he suddenly fainted, his spokesman said. Before that, he hadn’t eaten anything except tea.
After the poisoning in Russia: Navalny awakens from an artificial coma(00:40)
Navalny is running
In a night and fog operation, Navalny was transferred from Russia to Germany; his friends feared it was not safe at home. In Germany, doctors discovered that Navalny had the Novichok poison in his body. On Monday, almost four weeks after the incident, Navalny took his first steps in the Berlin hospital. Also, it no longer has to be ventilated.
Also on Monday, almost simultaneously, Vladimir Putin (67) met with the former Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko (66). The Russian promised his neighbors a $ 1.5 billion loan so they can continue to fight the mass protests in their home country.
Putin provokes
This agreement is not the only thing that should be discussed in the coming days. As the positive news from Navalny circulated, Putin had himself photographed with two cups of tea in hand. He took one of them to Lukashenko, who according to official statements does not drink tea.
Former Russian spy and government critic Alexander Litvinenko (1962-2006) drank tea in 2006. The drink was poisoned with polonium, Litvinenko died from it. Even today it is unknown who was behind the attack. (vof)
