Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who suffered alleged intoxication, was in solid state in hospital on Saturday after being airlifted to Berlin after a confrontation over his medical evacuation from Russia.
An air ambulance with Navalny, chartered through the German NGO Cinema for Peace, landed at 0847 local time (0647 GMT) in the army wing of Berlin’s Tegel Airport.
His spokesman Kira Yarmysh tweeted that “the plane with Alexei has landed in Berlin.”
“Navalny’s stable,” Jaka Bizilj, director of the Film for Peace Foundation, told AFP after landing.
The Berlin Charity Hospital showed that he had admitted to Navalny and was exhausting a “full medical diagnosis.”
The 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption activist, one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, fell into a coma after falling ill on Thursday on a Moscow-bound plane that had to make an emergency landing in Omsk.
Aides say Navalny was poisoned, allegedly through a cup of tea at the airport, and blamed Putin, although Russian doctors said the evidence showed no signs of poison.
Doctors who treated him at Omsk refused to let Navalny pass, but reversed the course after his circle of relatives and staff asked him for permission to go to Germany.
When the plane departed Omsk around 08:00 (02:00 GMT), Navalny’s wife, Yulia, posted a photo of him on a stretcher on Instagram and thanked enthusiasts for their “perseverance.”
“Without your support, we wouldn’t have been able to take it!” she wrote.
Russian doctors said he was in a coma and breathing through a severe ventilator.
However, they said the tests did not uncovered evidence of poison, as Navalny gave the impression of having a “metabolic disorder” and had suffered a sharp drop in blood sugar.
The regional interior ministry said police had detected a commercial chemist after cleaning Navalny and his luggage, doctors said it would not have caused his condition.
The air ambulance arrived in Omsk on Friday morning, but Russian doctors first said Navalny was too “unstable” to move.
– Call to Putin –
On Friday they announced that they had agreed to be transferred after German doctors examined him and the Film for Peace Foundation said they were “willing and able” to send him to Berlin.
The revocation followed a letter from Navalny’s wife with a direct appeal to Putin and after advisers asked the European Court of Human Rights to interfere with the Russian government.
Navalny is the newest in a long list of Kremlin critics who have fallen gravely or died in an obvious poisoning.
His wife told reporters he was looking for Navalny to be “in an independent hospital, which we accept as true in doctors.”
Yarmysh tweeted that “Alexei’s war for life and fitness is just beginning. Array… but at least now he’s taken the first step.”
The air ambulance sent to take Navalny to Berlin after Chancellor Angela Merkel prolonged a treatment offer.
European Union leaders, adding Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, have expressed fears for Navalny, who has faced physical attacks and repeated prosecutions for more than a decade of opposition to the Russian authorities.
Navalny lost consciousness in a time after taking off from Tomsk in Siberia on Thursday, where he ran for opposition candidates ahead of next month’s regional elections.
Yarmysh said he looked “absolutely fine” before flying and had eaten a cup of tea at the airport.
She said she was sure she had suffered an “intentional poisoning” and blamed Putin.
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He also claimed that Russia’s refusal to evacuate Navalny was a ploy to “save time” and make him insinuate the poison, which poses a “critical risk to his life.”
Navalny has earned many enemies with his anti-corruption investigations, which reveal the luxurious lifestyles of the Russian elite and attract millions of online perspectives.
It is the newest in a long list of Kremlin critics who have fallen seriously or died in an obvious poisoning.
Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Navalny, showed on social media that the organization “continues its work”.
“I am relieved now that if the terrorists had released a hostage after long negotiations,” his fellow opposition Ilya Yashin tweeted, criticizing Navalny’s delay in leaving.
“I need this lost time not to take Alexei’s life.”
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