Navalny has responded to speech, but « long-term consequences of the serious poisoning can still not be ruled out. »
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent more than two weeks ago, has been taken out of an induced coma and is responsive, according to the German hospital where he has been receiving treatment. Navalny, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has been imprisoned multiple times in the past few years for organizing anti-Kremlin protests, fell suddenly ill on a flight from Moscow to Tomsk on August 20th. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, and Navalny slipped into a coma after being admitted to a Siberian hospital.
