MOSCOW: The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was in intensive care in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after he fell ill in what his spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning. “Alexei is now in intensive care.”“I’m sure it was intentional poisoning,” she told the Echo of Moscow radio station. State news agency TASS reported that Navalny was in the intensive care unit for toxicology patients in Omsk Emergency Hospital No. And he is the latest in a long line of domestic Kremlin critics to suffer an apparent poisoning. In August last year Navalny suffered rashes and his face became swollen while he was in a police detention center serving a short term for calling for illegal protests.

Source: Manila Times August 20, 2020 07:30 UTC