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Navalny daughter accepts human rights award on his behalf

Hospital: Russia’s Navalny still in coma but improving

7:31 pm August 28, 2020

Berlin: German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for a suspected poisoning say the dissident is still in an induced coma but his condition is stable and his symptoms are improving. Navalny, a corruption investigator who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia about a week ago and was taken to a […]

Moscow announces advanced trials for new COVID-19 vaccine

11:46 pm August 26, 2020

Moscow: The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957. The world’s first vaccine against the coronavirus to receive a government go-ahead has caused unease […]

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Comatose Russian dissident visited by wife, aide in Germany

7:18 pm August 23, 2020

Berlin: Alexi Navalny wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning. Navalny was flown to Germany on Saturday from Siberia after doctors determined he was stable enough to be brought to the capital’s Charité hospital for […]

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Vladmir Putin critic Alexei Navalny lands in Germany

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Putin’s critic Navalny lands in Germany

2:16 pm August 22, 2020

Berlin: A plane carrying Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning, touched down early Saturday in Berlin, where he will be treated in the German capital’s main hospital. Navalny’s spokeswoman and a representative of the NGO that arranged the flight confirmed that the plane had landed. “Navalny is in […]

UN: Discussions with Russia on COVID-19 vaccine under way

6:57 pm August 20, 2020

London: The World Health Organization’s Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia to try to obtain more information about the experimental COVID-19 vaccine the country recently approved. Last week, Russia became the first country in the world to license a coronavirus vaccine when President Vladimir Putin announced its approval. But the vaccine has not yet passed the advanced trials normally required […]