President Vladimir Putin's top opponent was rushed to hospital on Sunday a day after almost 1,400 people were arrested at an unauthorised protest, in the largest police crackdown on dissent in recent years.
Navalny on Sunday had swollen eyelids, discharge in the eye and a rash on his upper body, his personal physician Anastasia Vasilyeva said.
She told reporters on Monday that both she and the 43-year-old politician believe the reaction could have been a response to "some chemical agent".
Navalny has been in jail since last week for calling an unauthorised rally.
Soros funded protest, Putin did what needed to be done. He has been fighting the cbal by himself now for years.
Bentley Sullivan
Am I the only one who thinks that their own lawyers poison them and hope to get famous?
Bentley Hughes
Please take away VOA and RFE/RL from here.
Christian Mitchell
he wuz gassed and put on an electric conveyor belt for being skull crushed with pedal driven pneumatic hammers only to be processed into soap and lampshades....its all true goy !
Joseph Green
So he was poisoned, but he's still not dead? It's very hard to blame either side. It could be Putin, but it could also be political campaign. At least next time some of his organs should fail beyond repair, then we can blame Putin easier or commend his political opponent for toughness propaganda. Overall poisoning isn't a big deal in Russia, vodka does that every day.
Nolan White
>Overall poisoning isn't a big deal in Russia, vodka does that every day. Did you read it somewhere in Internet?
Navalny is irrelevant for the last 2-4 years. Either he 'poisoned' himself to get some attention, or he was indeed poisoned by soros to squeeze whatever he can out of this failure.
Kind of a good thing. Navalny's problem is that he's the candidate of non-Russian interests. With all the international and foreign press support he gets, the legitimate westernized, liberal democracy movements in Russia don't get any attention or funding and are viewed with suspicion as more foreign puppets.
I don't think anyone loves Navalny more than Putin himself. He gets all the upsides of a controlled opposition without having to do any work himself except for the occasional mass arrest.
When Navalny is dead, real reformers will have the opportunity to rise.
