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Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny ‘could die at any moment’: Doctor
Physician Yaroslav Ashikhmin said on Saturday that test results he received from Navalny’s family show him with sharply elevated levels of potassium, which can bring on cardiac arrest, and heightened creatinine levels that indicate impaired kidneys.
His personal physicians have not been allowed to see him in prison. He went on a hunger strike to protest against the refusal to let them visit when he began experiencing severe back pain and a loss of feeling in his legs.
I am no expert on how totalitarian, hyper masculine, toxic oligarchy states work, but it seems like the strongest opposition to Putin is being literally starved to death.
On 20 August 2020, Russian opposition figure and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent and was hospitalized in a serious condition. During a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, he became violently ill and was taken to a hospital in Omsk after an emergency landing there, and put in a coma. He was evacuated to the Charité hospital in Berlin, Germany, two days later. The use of the nerve agent was confirmed by five Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) certified laboratories