Path Opened for Transfer of Putin's Rival in Coma to Germany

Wife Sends Letter Pleading Transfer to Putin, Transfer Approved
Sudden Coma Raises Possibility of Poisoning Terrorism

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, and his political opponent, opposition leader Alexei Navalny [Image source=EPA Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min, International Department Reporter] A path has opened for Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who is hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning and is an opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to be transferred to Germany for treatment.

According to the Wall Street Journal on the 21st (local time), medical staff at the ambulance hospital in Omsk, Siberia, where Navalny is hospitalized, stated that they do not oppose his transfer to Germany because his condition has stabilized.

German doctors who examined Navalny, who arrived at the Omsk hospital in a coma, also determined that he is in a suitable condition to be transferred abroad for treatment, AP News reported.

Germany sent a medical aircraft to Russia the previous evening to transfer Navalny to Charit? Hospital in Berlin, but the Omsk hospital opposed his transfer to Germany, citing his unstable condition.

Regarding this, there has been speculation that Russian intelligence agencies used poison to eliminate President Putin’s opponent and even blocked his transfer to Germany.

The Journal reported that the flight was approved after Navalny’s wife, Yulia, sent an appeal letter to President Putin requesting permission for her husband to be transferred to a German hospital.

Navalny, an opposition activist who has been at odds with the Putin regime, suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed on a plane flying from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow the day before.

He was immediately transferred to a local hospital after the passenger plane made an emergency landing in another Siberian city, Omsk, and is receiving treatment, but local media reported that he is in a coma.

Close aides claim that Navalny had only drunk tea at an airport cafe before boarding the plane and had not eaten any other food, asserting that someone attempted to poison him by putting poison in the tea.

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