Russian doctors say Alexei Navalny cannot be moved to Germany due to instability

AKIPRESS.COM - Russian doctors have said they will not allow leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny to be transferred from a hospital in Siberia to Germany after his suspected poisoning, BBC reported.
The head doctor at the Siberian hospital, Alexander Murakhovsky, told reporters on Friday that Navalny's condition had improved a little, but that he was still unstable. He said legal questions would need to be resolved before Navalny could be moved.
But Navalny's team said it was "deadly" for him to remain in the Siberian hospital.
"The ban on the transportation of Navalny is an attempt on his life, which is being made right now by doctors and the deceitful authorities who sanctioned it," Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter.
The Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation said it had organized a plane to pick up Navalny and bring him back to Berlin, where the Charite hospital was ready to treat him.
The air ambulance arrived in the Siberian city of Omsk on Friday morning, according to flight tracking data.
Both Germany and France have previously said they were happy to help with treatment. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said "he can receive from us all the help and medical support needed".
A spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Kremlin would help move Alexei Navalny abroad if necessary and wished him a "speedy recovery".
Alexei Navalny is a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He fell ill during a flight on Thursday, August 20. His team suspects something was put in his tea at an airport cafe.
He was taken to hospital where Kira Yarmysh said he was on a ventilator and in a coma. Police officers filled the hospital and his belongings were being confiscated, she added.
Alexei Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnaya was initially denied access to her husband because authorities said the patient had not agreed to the visit, Yarmysh said, although she was later allowed on to the ward.
Nalvany's family want to transport him to another clinic for safety reasons, his spokeswoman said.
Speaking on Friday, doctor Alexander Murakhovsky declined to answer questions about whether the opposition figure had been poisoned, saying only that there were five possible diagnoses and that test results would be available in two days.
Kira Yarmysh told the Echo of Moscow radio station that she was "sure it was intentional poisoning".