Doctors urge Alexei Navalny to end hunger strike now
By DW
29 April 2021 |
3:34 pm
If Navalny perseveres with his hunger strike he will die, doctors have warned. Meanwhile, the opposition leader has been brought up to speed with the protests across Russia, which have filled him with "hope."
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