Navalny’s medical evacuation from Russia to Germany in limbo
Mr Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, was admitted to an intensive care unit in a coma at a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk on Thursday, following what his supporters are calling a suspected poisoning that they believe was engineered by the Kremlin.
Family and allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who remains in a coma in a Siberian hospital, are fighting for his transfer to a German clinic.
It comes as local doctors insisted the 44-year-old politician is too unstable to be evacuated and refused to give authorisation for the transfer.
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