A Russian opposition activist who landed in the hospital after being poisoned this month will reportedly complete his recovery abroad.
Vladimir Kara-Murza left Russia on Sunday for treatment “abroad,” though it’s unclear exactly where he has traveled, ABC News reported.
Kara-Murza spent a week in a medically-induced coma on life support while doctors in Russia tried to clear out whatever had been used to poison him. It’s uncertain what specifically he was poisoned with. The diagnosis is “acute intoxication by an unknown substance.”
It is the second time Kara-Murza has been poisoned, an effort to kill him that is believed to be linked to his activism to reestablish democracy in Russia.
The incident will not stop his work, according to a statement from his lawyer on Facebook.
“He definitely will continue to do what he has done all these last years: activity directed towards the restoration of democracy in Russia,” Vadim Prokhorov wrote.
Around the same time as the poisoning, President Trump was asked in an interview with Bill O’Reilly about Russian President Vladimir Putin being “a killer.”
“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think — our country’s so innocent. You think our country’s so innocent?” Trump responded.
Trump’s remark drew criticism from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who spoke on the Senate floor wishing a speedy recovery to Kara-Murza, a “brave Russian patriot.”
“Vladimir knew there was no moral equivalence between the United States and Putin’s Russia. And anyone who would make such a suggestion maligns the character of our great nation and does a disservice to all those whose blood is on Putin’s hands,” McCain said in the Feb. 7 speech.
