Russian doctors have given a dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning permission to be transferred abroad for medical treatment.
The most prominent member of Russia's opposition, Navalny campaigned to challenge Putin in the 2018 presidential election but was barred from running. Since then, he has been promoting opposition candidates in regional elections, challenging members of the ruling party, United Russia.
Navalny fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on Thursday and was taken to the hospital after the plane made an emergency landing. His team made arrangements to transfer him to Charité, a clinic in Berlin that has a history of treating famous foreign leaders and dissidents. While his supporters and family members continue to insist that Navalny was poisoned, doctors in Omsk denied that and put forth another theory.
Another doctor with ties to the politician, Dr Anastasia Vasilyeva, said that diagnosing Navalny with a "metabolic disorder" says nothing about what may have caused it — and it could have been the result of a poisoning.
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