Berlin ¨C Russia¡¯s most prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, arrived in Berlin for treatment Saturday after falling into a coma in Siberia in what his family and supporters suspect was a deliberate poisoning weeks before nationwide local elections.
Navalny was admitted to Charit¨¦, one of Germany¡¯s leading medical research facilities, where he was undergoing extensive diagnostic tests, the hospital said after a plane transporting him from Russia touched down. He arrived more than 48 hours after he first lost consciousness, a delay his supporters bitterly criticized Russian officials for having caused.
¡°Patient stable, mission accomplished,¡± said Jaka Bizilj, who runs the Cinema for Peace, the foundation that organized the air transport at the urging of Navalny¡¯s friends and family.
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