Alexei Navalny, the man seen as one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top critics in the country, was allegedly poisoned during a flight from Siberia to Moscow and has since been hospitalized. The Daily Beast reported that Kira Yarmish, Navalny's press secretary, said he was poisoned with some kind of toxin and was unconscious. “We assume that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his tea. Yarmish told the Echo Moskvy radio station that during the flight Navalny was sweating and asked her to talk to him so that he could "focus on a sound of a voice." Russian authorities have recently opened a criminal case against Navalny for allegedly slandering a veteran of World War II.

Source: Fox News August 20, 2020 05:05 UTC