Navalny Still in Coma, Poisoning Symptoms Receding

[Rogue Valley]

Navalny Still in Coma, Poisoning Symptoms Receding – Spokeswoman

8/28/20
Prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny remains in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator more than a week after falling ill from an apparent poisoning but his symptoms appear to be receding, his spokeswoman said Friday as doctors race to identify the substance with which he may have been poisoned. Navalny, 44, has been receiving treatment in Germany after spending two days in a Siberian hospital where Russian doctors ruled out that the de facto leader of Russia’s opposition was poisoned. “He’s still in an induced coma and is connected to a ventilator,” Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter. “His condition is severe but the symptoms of poisoning are receding,” she added. “There’s currently no serious threat to his life. Still, the doctors aren’t giving any forecasts,” Yarmysh tweeted.

Berlin’s Charité hospital said earlier this week that multiple independent tests indicated that he was poisoned with an unidentified substance belonging to a group of chemicals that affect the nervous system. Germany’s Der Spiegel news magazine reported that Charité made contact with Bulgarian colleagues over a potential link to the 2015 poisoning of an arms dealer there. On Friday, it reported that Charité sought help from the German army’s secret toxicology lab and the British defense science and technology lab in Porton Down that participated in the 2018 Skripal poisoning investigation. In a statement on its website Friday, the hospital said it was too early to gauge potential long-term effects “due to the severity of the patient’s poisoning.”

That Mr. Navalny is on the mend is great news. We must hope that there is no permanent neurological damage.

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[Ringo Stalin]

Judging by how many oppositionists were poisoned and in the end all remained alive, I make a simple, but logical conclusion - they are being poisoned by their own people. It's just that they don't know enough chemistry to finish the job.
In general, it is convenient to be an oppositionist. You drank too much vodka somewhere, but in the morning you are poisoned by Putin and you are flying to Germany for treatment on a private plane, and your treatment is paid for by a german foundation.

 

[Westphalian]

I wish Navalny a speedy recovery and return to Russia.

But look - this whole thing stinks. He's conveniently photographed at the airport with a cup. He's loudly groaning in pain on the aircraft. He's been subject to alleged attempts on his life before. And his many fans in Western capitals immediately concluded, with no evidence, that he'd been poisoned.


Personally my advice would be to stay in the West. He's far more popular, and safer, there than in Russia.

 

[Rogue Valley]

I wish Navalny a speedy recovery and return to Russia.

No you don't. You're a Putinista 24/7.

 

[Ringo Stalin]

Head of the Munich security conference Ischinger - about the poisoning of Navalny:

"This, unfortunately, is the end, including for the idea of a strategic partnership (between Russia and Germany)."

What a frank answer to the question: "Who benefits from this?"

 

[Rogue Valley]

Head of the Munich security conference Ischinger - about the poisoning of Navalny:

"This, unfortunately, is the end, including for the idea of a strategic partnership (between Russia and Germany)."

What a frank answer to the question: "Who benefits from this?"

Don't worry. Merkel [stupidly] keeps Russian terrorism separate from business. This won't affect Nordstream-2.