⁍ Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given a more than two-hour video interview to a prominent Russian YouTube blogger.
⁍ Navalny said his health had much improved and that doctors were surprised by the speed of his recovery.
⁍ He emerged from a coma in recent weeks after collapsing on a domestic flight in Russian Siberia in August.
⁍ German doctors say he was poisoned with Novichok, a rare Russian nerve agent.
– Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first video interview since being discharged from a Berlin hospital, where he was in a coma after being poisoned with the Russian nerve agent Novichok. Navalny, 44, said his health had much improved and that doctors were surprised by the speed of his recovery, but that his hands shake significantly and he was undergoing physical therapy, Reuters reports. The YouTube interview was dated Monday. Navalny emerged from a coma in recent weeks after collapsing on a domestic flight in Russian Siberia in August. He was flown to Berlin for treatment and German doctors say he was poisoned with Novichok, a rare Russian nerve agent.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-video/navalny-makes-first-video-appearance-since-coma-says-health-much-improved-idUSKBN26R26A