The Russian doctors who treated Navalny on his diagnosis, the decision to send him abroad, and more Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Anatoly Kalinichenko On the morning of August 22, Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny was medevaced to the Charité Hospital in Berlin. Prior to that, he spent 44 hours at an emergency hospital in the Siberian City of Omsk, after becoming violently ill on board a flight from Tomsk to Moscow.

The Investigative Committee of Belarus distributed a video with a 17-year-old teenager claiming that journalists from unnamed publications offered him to give a fake interview that he was allegedly raped by OMON officers. The teenager said that he ended up in a detention center on Akrestsin Street in Minsk after he was detained by riot police. From there, his parents took him, after which the young man was hospitalized.

The Dozhd TV channel reported that on August 24, it was subjected to DDoS attacks on its servers twice in a day. The first attack occurred during the afternoon newscast at 15:53, the second at 20:16, when the evening edition was on. As of 21:12, it was not clear if the second attack had ended.

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have reported ( .pdf ) the first confirmed case of reinfection with the coronavirus, The New York Times reports. The 33-year-old man was diagnosed with coronavirus four and a half months after his first case of infection. The patient had mild symptoms the first time, but now has none. The reinfection, scientists say, is caused by a new virus detected after the patient returned from Spain.

On August 24, 2020, doctors treating Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny at the Charité Hospital in Berlin announced that there is clinical evidence pointing to the fact that he was poisoned with a “cholinesterase inhibitor.” The exact substance has yet to be determined. Navalny is currently in an artificial coma and doctors are treating him with atropine — a medication used as an antidote to certain types of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings. Not always.

The Omsk Health Ministry maintains that during his hospitalization in Russia, opposition politician Alexey Navalny tested negative for a wide range of synthetic substances, including inhibitors, reports RIA Novosti. Omsk health officials made this comment in response to a statement from the Charite Hospital in Berlin, where Navalny is currently undergoing treatment.

The Ministry of Health of the Omsk region claims that during the hospitalization of Alexei Navalny, tests were carried out for a wide range of synthetic substances, including inhibitors, which showed a negative result. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to the ministry. So the regional Ministry of Health commented on the statement of the Berlin clinic "Charite" that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with an unidentified substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors.

Protesters have been detained on Independence Square in Minsk, Tut.by reports. The publication writes that people began to gather in the square around seven o'clock in the evening. “But the riot police did not allow the protesters to install equipment for communication in the “free microphone” format,” reports. Tut.by The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reported that "several participants in an unauthorized rally" were detained on Independence Square.

In a joint statement, Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, have called on the Russian authorities to conduct an open investigation into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny. Merkel and Maas noted that German doctors at the Charité Hospital in Berlin have confirmed that there is clinical evidence pointing to the fact that Navalny was poisoned. “Taking into account Mr.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, in a joint statement , called on the Russian authorities to conduct an open investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Merkel and Maas noted that, according to the Berlin clinic "Charite", clinical studies point to the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. “Given Mr. Navalny’s prominent role among the political opposition in Russia, the authorities should investigate this crime to the last detail – and in full transparency.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich has been summoned to the Belarusian Investigative Committee for questioning in connection with the criminal investigation into the opposition’s transition council. Former Belarusian culture minister Pavel Latushko (Paval Lathuska) was also called in for questioning. Belarusian officials launched a criminal case over the opposition’s Coordination Council for the transition of power on August 20.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Lukashenko continues to consider himself the president, although almost the whole country opposes him. Is there a chance that he will leave peacefully? On August 23, another colossal protest was held in the center of Minsk: at least 150 thousand people took to the streets of the city with the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko, the release of political prisoners and the holding of honest elections.

Writer Svetlana Aleksievich was summoned for interrogation in the Investigative Committee of Belarus as part of the investigation of a criminal case on the creation of a coordinating council of the opposition. Also, the former Minister of Culture Pavel Latushko was summoned for interrogation - like Aleksievich, he is a member of the presidium of the council.