{"id":12583,"date":"2020-08-25T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2020-08-24T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:11:16","slug":"is-putin-getting-away-with-poisoning-another-political-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-putin-getting-away-with-poisoning-another-political-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Putin getting away with poisoning another political opponent?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in The\u00a0Hill<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aleksei Navalny<\/a>, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation headquartered in Moscow, is one of the last-standing political opponents of Vladimir Putin<\/a>. His tightly researched, well-documented reports on the corruption of high-level Kremlin officials have been a thorn in the Kremlin\u2019s side. Not only that, but Navalny has engaged in regional and local politics in a manner that could diminish Putin\u2019s control over the vast Russian Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The morning<\/a> of Aug. 20, Navalny was on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow when he began to experience extreme pain and disorientation. The flight was diverted to Omsk, where he was transferred<\/a> to the local hospital in a coma. Omsk doctors hooked him up to a ventilator and listed his condition as comatose, critical but stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Navalny\u2019s travel companions, he did not eat prior to the flight but, in the airport, drank hot tea. (Navalny drinking<\/a> tea in the airport and later screaming<\/a> on the plane are both documented on film.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various reports<\/a> from the hospital maintained that Omsk doctors were not allowing Navalny\u2019s wife<\/a> and his personal doctor to see the patient, despite Russian laws that guarantee<\/a> such rights. For days, hospital officials refused to discharge Navalny for an air transfer arranged by French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for treatment in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in The\u00a0Hill Aleksei Navalny, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation headquartered in Moscow, is one of the last-standing political opponents of Vladimir Putin. His tightly researched, well-documented reports on the corruption of high-level Kremlin officials have been a thorn in the Kremlin\u2019s side. 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