‘Hi, this is Navalny’: poisoned Russian opposition leader posts hospital photo

Alexei Navalny says he can breathe independently in Instagram post sent from hospital in Berlin

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he is nowable to breathe without any external support, in his first public statement since he was poisoned last month.

Navalny, who German authorities said was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok, posted a photograph on Instagram of himself sitting up in a hospital bed surrounded by his wife and their two children.

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