Alexei Navalny, Rival to Putin, in Critical Condition After Suspected Poisoning

MOSCOW—Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s political elite, is unconscious and going through treatment at a Siberian hospital after getting poisoned, his spokeswoman mentioned.

He started off emotion unwell after he had tea early Thursday prior to a flight to Moscow from the Siberian metropolis of Tomsk, Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter. The plane designed an emergency landing in the close by metropolis of Omsk, the place Mr. Navalny was admitted to the hospital, she added.

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