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Alexei Navalny moved to hospital as concerns grown over jailed Putin critics health
Mr Navalny is almost three weeks into a hunger strike
Oliver Carroll
Moscow Correspondent
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been transferred to hospital amid concerns he has become critically ill.
Mr Navalny is now nearly three weeks into a hunger strike he declared in protest at not being allowed access to doctors he trusted. Over the weekend, Mr Navalnys press secretary claimed he was a matter of days away from death.
The opposition leader, who returned to Russia in January after a near-death scrape with Novichok, has complained of serious problems with his spine and nervous system, likely now exacerbated by the continued hunger strike. .Anastasia Vasilyeva, Mr Navalnys personal doctor, said blood results released by the prison service already showed evidence of kidney failure. The elevated levels of potassium and creatinine had created a medical emergency, she claimed.
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Pachamama
(16,875 posts)Perhaps someone can explain this and what good will come from his dying. His kids will be without a father. His wife without a husband. His friends without a friend. His supporters without someone to follow. Putin without a threat.
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)Maybe he just didn't want to give up on slaying Putin, though we all know that was never going to be a fair fight.
And his fellow countrymen and women who see him as an icon.
Pachamama
(16,875 posts)But he has more purpose and can accomplish more alive than dead and it just made no sense to me when he left Germany to return to Russia and have it be a death sentence.
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)I would not presume to try to climb inside the mind of a man willing to martyr himself, but it is not an unknown phenomenon.