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German doctors were attempting to determine what caused Alexei Navalny to become suddenly ill and lapse into a coma, hours after the Kremlin critic was evacuated to Berlin. In a statement that apparently contradicted Russian doctors who said he was too sick and unstable to leave, the activist group that…

New York Times, New York Times August 22, 2020 Will the West take action against whoever may have harmed Aleksei Navalny?Read Full Article » Related Topics: Russia Comment Show comments Hide Comments Log In with your RCMG Account Register Read More

Air ambulance transfer of Alexei Navalny follows standoff with Russian doctors published : 22 Aug 2020 at 15:44 A police officer stands guard outside Charite Hospital Complex in Berlin, where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is expected to be treated. (Reuters Photo) BERLIN: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in…

British foreign secretary Dominic Raab has called for a "full and transparent investigation" into the suspected poisoning of Russian activist Alexei Navalny.Mr Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, is in a coma after drinking a cup of tea reportedly laced with poison. He was moved from a…

MOSCOW: A plane carrying a Russian dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital Saturday following much wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment. The plane could be seen taking off from an airport in the Siberian city of Omsk just after 8…

RUSSIAN DOCTORS HAVE given a dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning permission to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, a senior medic said. The reversal came after more than 24 hours of wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment. Navalny, a 44-year-old politician and corruption investigator…

Alexander Murakhovsky, chief doctor at Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 where Alexei Navalny was admitted after he fell ill in what his spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning, speaks to the media in Omsk on August 21, 2020. — AFP OMSK: Russian doctors treating opposition figure Alexei Navalny for suspected poisoning…

Alexey Navalny, the anti-corruption blogger who for years has been Vladimir Putin’s only formidable opponent—which is to say, his only adversary who has remained in Russia, stayed active, and maintained prominence despite repeated attacks from the authorities—has been hospitalized in an intensive-care unit in the Siberian city of Omsk. He…

The amount of students deciding to take GCSE computing in England drops despite an increase last year By Clare McDonald, Business Editor Published: 20 Aug 2020 16:15 The number of students in England choosing computing as a GCSE subject has fallen in 2020, despite growing in popularity in recent years.…

MOSCOW—Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s political elite, was admitted to the intensive-care unit at a Siberian hospital after a suspected poisoning left him unconscious, his spokeswoman said. Mr. Navalny started to feel ill on a flight to Moscow nearly an hour…