⁍ Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was seen walking down the stairs in a photo posted on his Instagram feed on Saturday.

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⁍ Navalny fell ill on a domestic flight in Siberia last month and was airlifted to Berlin while still in a coma.

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⁍ Germany says laboratory tests in three countries have determined that Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

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⁍ The Kremlin denied Russia was responsible for Navalny’s illness and said that there was not enough evidence of his poisoning.

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– Five days after a Berlin hospital said he had been taken off a ventilator and could breathe independently, Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was seen walking down the stairs in a photo posted on his Instagram feed on Saturday, Reuters reports. Navalny, the leading opponent of Vladimir Putin, fell ill on a domestic flight in Siberia last month and was airlifted to Berlin while still in a coma. “Let me tell you how my recovery is going. It is already a clear path although a long one,” Navalny wrote. In the Instagram post he said he had difficulties using his phone, pouring water, or climbing stairs because his hands failed him and his legs trembled. Germany says laboratory tests in three countries have determined that Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. The Kremlin denied Russia was responsible for Navalny’s illness and said that there was not enough evidence of his poisoning. Russian authorities have refused to open a formal probe into Navalny’s case and instead have launched a preliminary procedure, which should conclude if an investigation is needed. Russian prosecutors also ordered an inspection of the hotel in Siberian city Tomsk where Navalny stayed before collapsing on a plane and where his team said traces of Novichok were discovered on a water bottle. The inspection found several minor health and sanitation violations in the hotel’s restaurant, for which its staff would be fined $820, according to a report on Saturday.