Doctors treating Putin's top critic after a suspected poisoning won't let him leave Russia for treatment, his aide says

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• Doctors treating Alexei Navalny, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, are preventing him from leaving Russia for specialist care, an aide said.
• Navalny fell ill on a flight Thursday and was taken to a hospital in Omsk, Siberia, after an emergency landing. Kira Yarmish, his press secretary, said he was poisoned. 
• On Friday, Navalny's doctors banned him from flying to Germany for specialist attention. "We can't allow him to be transported," the chief physician at the hospital said. "The worst could happen."
• Yarmish said that authorities are stalling, hoping to let all trace of the poison leave his bloodstream.
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Doctors treating Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, after a suspected poisoning attempt are not letting him leave Russia for specialist treatment, his press secretary has said.

On Thursday, Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow, and was taken to the hospital following an emergency landing in Omsk, Siberia.

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