Alexey Navalny (Photo: REUTERS / Maxim Shemetov / File Photo)
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Doctors of the Russian oppositionist Alexey Navalny stated that the results of his tests indicated a critical condition. This was reported on Twitter by the team of Anastasia Vasilyeva, the head of the Alliance of Doctors and Navalny’s attending physician.
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«Serum potassium – 7.1 mmol / l. These numbers are critical. This means both renal failure and the fact that at any moment serious heart rhythm disturbances can occur: ventricular fibrillation up to cardiac arrest, ”it was reported.
Doctor Alexander Polupan, who was part of the Moscow team of doctors who arrived in Omsk shortly after Navalny’s poisoning, commented on the test results as follows: “If you do not start treatment, he will die within the next few days.” Cardiologist and therapist Yaroslav Ashikhmin added that «our patient can die at any moment. “
The oppositionist’s doctors urgently addressed an open letter to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, said that they were ready to come, and asked to let them in, but have not yet received an answer.
Alexey Navalny, who is in a correctional colony, March 31 went on hunger strike due to the non-admission of an independent doctor. According to lawyers, he has been is in serious condition – one leg is incapacitated and the lower leg is taken away. 7 april MRI revealed two hernias.
According to the politician, he is threatened with force-feeding due to «serious deterioration in health. “
Sentence to Alexey Navalny in Russia
February 2, 2021 Moscow the court replaced the suspended sentence for the oppositionist Alexei Navalny in the case of Yves Rocher with a real one – 3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. The politician will be credited with the time he spent under house arrest in 2014, and the term will be reduced to about 2 years and 8 months. He is in the correctional colony Pokrov in the Vladimir region of the Russian Federation.
January 17, 2021 Navalny was detained while passing border control at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport… 16 hours earlier, the politician returned to Russia from Germany, where he was treated and recovered from the effects of poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok.
In the case of Yves Rocher in 2014, the politician was given 3.5 years of probation with a probationary period of five years (then it was extended for another year), allegedly due to the fact that he, together with his brother Oleg, convinced the company of Yves Rocher to conclude an unfavorable deal.
The United States, the European Union and Canada have imposed sanctions against Russia over the poisoning and sentencing of Alexei Navalny.
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