Navalny associate: German doctors gain access in Russia

[Dennis Donovan]

https://apnews.com/82f110b286b9ed01d2fecda3dcb25c70

By DARIA LITVINOVA
22 minutes ago

MOSCOW (AP) — A close associate of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who is comatose in a Siberian hospital, said Friday that German doctors now have access to Navalny as friends and relatives push for him to be moved to a Berlin clinic.

“The German doctors who came on this flight, from Nuremberg, who were refused to get access to this patient finally just got access to him several minutes ago,” Leonid Volkov said during a news conference in Berlin.

Navalny fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk on Thursday and was taken to the hospital after the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk. His team made arrangements to transfer him to Charité, a clinic in Berlin that has a history of treating famous foreign leaders or dissidents, but local doctors refused to authorize a transfer, saying the politician was too unstable to be transported.

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Volkov said even though there were optimistic signs with the doctors being allowed to see him, they were still lacking any reliable “independent data” on his condition and were standing by their demand that he needs to be brought to Germany for examination.

“We are still very far away from having this situation resolved,” he said.

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Hopefull news, but he's still in Russia.

[Ilsa]

1. Russian docs are stalling until multiple organ failure is established, I suppose.

My guess is Russia is trying to keep his body to control the autopsy report, saying he died of acute appendicitis or something.

[soothsayer]

2. They've thrown them out

[Freethinker65]

3. He will not be allowed to leave until he is in a condition like Otto Warmbier.