Writer Dmitry Bykov regained consciousness

Writer Dmitry Bykov, hospitalized on April 16, regained consciousness. The doctors informed the publisher of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, about this.

Muratov also noted that Bykov "responds to the appeal of doctors and relatives."

• Bykov was hospitalized on April 16 in Ufa, where he arrived with a lecture. He was put into a medically induced coma; On April 18, he was taken to Moscow by plane.