German Chancellor Angela Merkel secretly visited Alexei Navalny at the Berlin Charite clinic, where he received treatment after poisoning. Reported by Spiegel.

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Alexei Navalny was hospitalized on August 20 after he fell ill on board a plane from Tomsk to Moscow. For two days he was in the Omsk hospital, where they claimed that the politician fell into a coma due to metabolic disorders.

Then he was transported for treatment to the Berlin clinic "

The German authorities said that traces of poison from the Novichok group were found in Navalny's body. This was confirmed by independent laboratories in Sweden and France.. German government claims oppositionist was poisoned.

September 7, Navalny was taken out of a coma. On September 22, he was discharged from the hospital of the Charite clinic. According to his press secretary Kira Yarmysh, the politician will remain in Germany until the end of the rehabilitation course, but after that he plans to return to Russia..