Alexei Nalvany, leader of the opposition against the Government of Vladimir Putin, was admitted unconscious to an intensive care unit for an alleged poisoning, according to his spokesman, Kira Yarmysh.
As he communicated on his Twitter account, Nalvany suffered a decompensation while on a flight from the city of Tomsk, in Siberia, to Moscow. He added that the pilot had to make an emergency stop in the city of Omsk.
The spokeswoman said that at the hospital, doctors concluded that Nalvany was poisoned by a hot liquid. “We believe Alexei was poisoned by something mixed in his tea; it’s the only thing he drank in the morningYarmysh said.
Nalvany is a fervent critic of the Government of Vladimir Putin. He started out as an anti-corruption blogger against the current Russian president and for years he has been the subject of constant pressure from the authorities of that country.
In 2011 he was arrested and jailed for 15 days, after protests over alleged vote rigging by Putin’s party in the parliamentary elections. He was also briefly jailed in 2013 on an alleged embezzlement charge.
Recently, in June, he questioned the constitutional reforms undertaken by the Putin government as a coup and a “violation of the Constitution.”
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