Russia's Interior Ministry Launches Probe Into Hospitalisation Of Kremlin Critic Navalny: TASS
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a rally to demand the release of jailed protesters, detained during opposition demonstrations for fair elections, in Moscow, Russia September 29, 2019. (Image: Reuters/File)
The German clinic treating him said its initial medical examination pointed to poisoning, though Russian doctors who had treated Navalny in a Siberian hospital have contradicted that diagnosis.
Russia's Interior Ministry said on Thursday it was launching a probe into the hospitalisation of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny over what his allies suspect was a poisoning, TASS news agency reported.
Navalny is in a medically induced coma in a Berlin hospital where he was airlifted on Saturday after collapsing during a flight.
The German clinic treating him said its initial medical examination pointed to poisoning, though Russian doctors who had treated Navalny in a Siberian hospital have contradicted that diagnosis.
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