Alexei Navalny praises Russian pilots and paramedics

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia pose for a selfie (Navalny Instagram/AP)

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has thanked Russian pilots and paramedics for acting quickly after he fell into a coma on a flight from Siberia.

He is recovering in Germany from what authorities there determined to be nerve agent poisoning.