Navalny not poisoned, Russian doctors say, as they refuse to transfer him

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Russian doctors treating opposition leader Alexei Navalny do not believe he was poisoned, and refused to transfer him to a German hospital on Friday.

Mr Navalny, 44, who is 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.