Russia first treated Navalny for suspected poisoning then U-turned: Doctor

The immediate treatment Navalny received helped save his life, as did the pilot's decision to make an emergency landing in Omsk when he collapsed aboard his plane on the way to Moscow, said sources

Russia first treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for suspected poisoning, but doctors changed their minds after six hours when laboratory tests came back that found no traces of poison in his system, one of the doctors who treated him has said.

A dispute over what caused 44-year-old Navalny to collapse on a domestic Russian flight last month is straining ties between Germany, where he is now being treated, and Russia, which denies Berlin’s accusation that he was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.

The chief toxicologist at the Siberian hospital who was the first to treat Navalny, Alexander Sabaev, said he