Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he owes his life to the pilots who made an emergency landing when he fell into a coma on board a plane.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he owes his life to the pilots who made an emergency landing when he collapsed on a flight and the paramedics who diagnosed his poisoning and injected him with atropine.
"Medical assistance will be guaranteed to be unavailable, and in another hour I will continue my journey in a black plastic bag on the last row of seats, terrifying passengers going to the toilet."Though he has not been allowed to form a political party, Mr Navalny has been a thorn in the side of Russian President Vladimir Putin for the past decade, using YouTube and Instagram to publish stinging investigations of official corruption.
He also credited the airport medical officers and ambulance team who "did not say any lies about diabetes, etc., but immediately clearly said: 'this is toxic poisoning' and gave me a dose of atropine."Contradictory accounts have emerged of when and where Mr Navalny was given atropine, a drug used to treat nerve agent or pesticide poisonings.
Mr Navalny was discharged from a Berlin hospital earlier this week and has said he will undertake daily physiotherapy as part of his recovery. The latest Instagram post showed him hugging his wife Yulia and gazing straight into the camera with a neutral expression.
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