“He hears and reacts.” Dmitry Bykov's wife reported an improvement in his condition

The condition of journalist and writer Dmitry Bykov has improved, his wife Irina Lukyanova said.

"Positive dynamics. He hears and reacts, ”Lukyanova wrote on Facebook. She added that on April 19, doctors began to take Bykov out of drug-induced sleep.

Earlier, the founder of the Direct Speech lecture hall Svetlana Bolshakova and the head of the editorial board of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov reported an improvement in the writer's condition . According to Muratov, doctors give a favorable prognosis in the treatment of Bykov.

• Dmitry Bykov was urgently hospitalized on April 16 in one of the hospitals in Ufa, where he arrived with a lecture. The reason for hospitalization, according to media reports, was an exacerbation of diabetes. The writer was put into a medically induced coma. On April 18, he was taken by plane to Moscow for treatment.