As Russia's most prominent opposition politician was fighting for this life in a Berlin hospital Sunday, Russian media reported that he was under constant surveillance by federal security agents.
Moscow - As Russia's most prominent opposition politician was fighting for this life in a Berlin hospital Sunday, Russian media reported that he was under constant surveillance by federal security agents during the Siberian trip where he fell ill with suspected poisoning.
Navalny's emergency evacuation to Berlin followed days of wrangling as Alexander Murakhovsky, chief physician at Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, denied permission for Navalny to be transferred to German care. Navalny's colleagues and supporters accused authorities of endangering his life and trying to cover up a proper investigation of the suspected poisoning.
The report in Moskovsky Komsomolets published details of the surveillance of his every movement, including what he and his associates ate, who he met, his credit card records, shopping receipts, where he stayed, what vehicles he traveled in, even down to a sushi order and a nighttime swim in the river.
The Omsk region Ministry of Health Saturday announced that no signs of known toxins had been found in Navalny's system, only traces of alcohol and caffeine. Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Alliance of Doctors, an independent group of doctors aligned with Navalny, said he never drinks alcohol. "For a full two days, all the power of the Russian state was thrown into hiding the traces of what happened at the Tomsk airport," he wrote, adding that,"Omsk doctors took up combat duty - under the close tutelage of the competent authorities - and for two days gave out more and more contradictory and absurd versions of what had happened, ranging from poisoning with a substance that is found in plastic cups, to a sharp spontaneous drop in blood sugar levels.
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