NEW: The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma from an apparent poisoning, is aboard a plane going from Siberia to a Berlin hospital for treatment, his spokeswoman says.
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said she was blocked from seeing her husband and from moving him to a clinic in Berlin.Dimitar Dilkoff /AFP via Getty Images
Navalny remains in a coma, and the plan was to take him to Berlin's Charité hospital, according to his spokeswoman, who was with him when he suddenly fell ill.Friday, formally asking to move one of President Vladimir Putin's biggest critics from the Siberian hospital. At the time, the special evacuation plane was already waiting to take the politician to be cared for by specialists in Germany.
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