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		</div><p>German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he was poisoned with a nerve agent have detailed the case in an article for a major medical journal.</p>
<p>Berlin’s Charite hospital said Mr Navalny had given his permission for the article to be published in The Lancet journal.</p>
<p>He fell ill suddenly on a domestic flight in Russia on August 20. After an emergency landing and treatment at a Siberian hospital in Omsk, two days of political wrangling ended with Mr Navalny being flown to Berlin on a private air ambulance on August 22.</p>
<p>The European Union imposed sanctions on six Russian officials and a state research institute after tests by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons established that he had been exposed to Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.</p>
<p>The Kremlin, which denies involvement in the poisoning, has hit back with its own sanctions against EU officials.</p>
<p>In their journal article, Charite doctors detailed the course of Mr Navalny’s illness and treatment with a variety of drugs to address his symptoms and the underlying medical condition.</p>
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<p>As his condition improved, he was brought out of a medically induced coma and doctors determined that difficulties understanding speech and speaking he had initially showed after waking up disappeared after three weeks.</p>
<p>“At the last follow-up visit on day 55, we found near-complete recovery of neurological, neuropsychological and neurophysiological findings without evidence of polyneuropathy,” they wrote.</p>
<p>It is the first clinical case study detailing a Novichok poisoning, although the symptoms and treatment are similar to those for exposure to organophosphorus pesticides, which claim more than 100,000 lives in Asia each year.</p>
<p>Mr Navalny’s doctors noted that their patient “had a very favourable outcome” and attribute it to the swift treatment he received in Russia.</p>
<p>Last week, a joint investigation by research group Bellingcat and several media outlets alleged that operatives from Russia’s FSB domestic security agency had followed Mr Navalny during his trips since 2017.</p>
<p>Mr Navalny, who is convalescing in Germany, this week posted a video of a phone call to one of the alleged operatives, who said the poison was applied to his underwear. The FSB has branded the call a fake.</p>
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