Alexei Navalny, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent, is in a coma in intensive care in a hospital in Siberia after allegedly being poisoned.
Mr Navalny, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, was returning to Moscow on a flight from Tomsk on Thursday when he fell ill shortly after take-off and lost consciousness after collapsing in the plane’s lavatory, said Kira Yarmysh, his spokeswoman.
Ms Yarmysh said she suspected Mr Navalny had been poisoned by something mixed into his tea at the airport. “It was the only thing he drank all morning. Doctors said that the toxin was absorbed more quickly through hot liquid.”
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