{UAH} Russian opposition leader 'poisoned'

By AFP

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is unconscious and in intensive care in hospital after apparently being poisoned, his spokeswoman said Thursday.

Kira Yarmysh said Navalny was flying from Siberia to Moscow and his plane made an emergency landing after he fell ill.

Yarmysh told Echo of Moscow popular radio station: "I'm sure it was intentional poisoning."

"Alexei has toxic poisoning," she wrote on Twitter. "Alexei is now in intensive care."

Navalny is in the intensive care unit for toxicology patients in Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, the TASS state news agency confirmed.

"He is in a serious condition," the hospital's chief doctor Alexander Murakhovsky told TASS.

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