Pressure mounts on Russia to investigate opposition leader’s suspected poisoning

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Kremlin has said it does not want the illness of Russia’s opposition leader, who is in a coma in a German hospital after a suspected poisoning, to affect relations with the West.

The statement came two days after doctors at the Berlin hospital where Alexei Navalny is being treated said tests indicated he was poisoned, and minutes before British Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined other Western officials in demanding a transparent investigation into the 44-year-old’s condition.