After 24 hours of resistance, doctors at the Omsk hospital have allowed Alexey Navalny to leave their facility for further treatment in Germany. They now say he can leave, but the ready-to-go flight won’t depart until early Friday evening, EDT. The delay represents the tip of the iceberg of an increasingly clear cover-up by Russian authorities.
Navalny, a top Russian investigative journalist and opposition politician, is in a coma after suffering a medical crisis during a flight from the central-southern city of Tomsk to Moscow on Thursday. Eyewitness reports, video from the flight, and the testimony of Navalny’s staff prove that he suffered a sudden and serious illness. His staff believes his tea was poisoned at Tomsk airport. The flight made an emergency landing in Omsk, and Navalny was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state. The Russian state then jumped into action.
