Gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was en route to Germany early Saturday to receive medical care for suspected poisoning after the opposition politician's allies accused the Russian authorities of trying to stop his evacuation.
Medics upload Alexei Navalny into a German special medical plane at an airport in Omsk, Russia, on Saturday.Medical staff at the Omsk hospital initially said on Friday that while Navalny's condition had improved slightly overnight he was in too unstable a state to be safely transported out of the country.
"We have taken the decision that we do not object to him being transferred to a different hospital," Kalinichenko said. Alexander Murakhovsky, the head doctor at the hospital, said earlier that Navalny had been diagnosed with a metabolic disease that may have been caused by low blood sugar.
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