Poisoned Alexei Navalny owes his life to ‘unknown friends’
The fierce opposition leader to Russia’s Vladimir Putin has thanked the pilots and paramedics who took action first and asked questions later
25 September 2020 - 15:02
Moscow — Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Friday that he owed his life to the pilots who made an emergency landing when he collapsed on a flight last month, and the paramedics that diagnosed poisoning and injected him with atropine.
Navalny thanked his “unknown good friends” in the latest of a series of Instagram posts charting his gradual recovery from the poisoning, which German, French and Swedish laboratories have established was carried out with a nerve agent. Russia denies poisoning him and says it has seen no evidence...
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