After collapsing on board the plane on August 20 on his return from Siberia to Moscow, he spent almost three weeks unconscious, including the first two days in Omsk and the rest in Berlin, where he was transported at the urging of his loved ones.
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On the instagram today, Navalnyj published another of his photographs in the company of his wife Julia. He also reminded that the pilots landed in Omsk quickly and that paramedics at the airport gave him the antibody atropine as soon as they recognized that he had been poisoned.
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On Friday, Navalnyj thanked people on social networks who “played a key role” in rescuing him, calling them “unknown dear friends.” “Thank you, you’re good people,” the 44-year-old opposition also wrote on Twitter.
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While doctors at a hospital in Omsk claimed they had found no signs of poison in Navalny, laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden confirmed that he had been poisoned by a novice, leading to suspicions that the Kremlin and Russian secret services may be behind the poisoning. Moscow refuses.
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Russia’s foreign ministry said today that the German government “categorically refused” cooperation in clarifying the case and that it was campaigning against Russian authorities.
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Russia is facing international pressure to open an investigation into the case. Russia’s delegation to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Wednesday asked Germany for information on the Naval case, including test results, biological materials and clinical specimens.
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German government spokeswoman Martina Fietz confirmed that the German mission at the OPCW had received the call and would respond within ten days. However, Fietz also said that Russia had already received everything necessary to launch the investigation itself.
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