Alexei Navalny: Russian doctors refuse permission to fly comatose dissident to Germany
22 August 2020 |
9:00 am
A German NGO has sent an air-ambulance with a coma-specialist team to pick up Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. But Russian doctors say he is too ill to move.
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