Putin critic Navalny in coma after video shows him drinking tea in airport, screaming in airplane

National Post ^ | August 20, 2020 | Reuters

[rickmichaels]

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison.

A fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny started feeling ill when returning to Moscow from Tomsk in Siberia by plane on Wednesday morning. He was carried off the plane on a stretcher after it made an emergency landing at Omsk.

He was in intensive care and on an artificial lung ventilator in an Omsk hospital, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said.

“We assume that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his tea. It was the only thing that he drank in the morning. Alexi is now unconscious,” Yarmysh said.

Doctors gave contradictory information about his condition, saying it had stabilized but also that there was still a threat to his life and they were working to save him.

There is a long history of Kremlin foes being poisoned or falling ill after suspected poisonings.

They include Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London in 2006 after drinking tea laced with polonium-210, and Sergei Skripal, a former double agent who was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2018 in Salisbury, England.

[DoodleBob]

True, but anytime Putin talks about being a Christian, or Christina values, or how he hates gays blah blah blah, the conservative slobberfest that ensues is embarrassing.

Putin would hoist the rainbow flag over the Kremlin and stream Brokeback Mountain on RT if he thought it would give him more power. He's an opportunist, and thug, a commie, he's not a friend of Western Society or values and I wouldn't trust him with anything. Anyone who even slightly cheers when St Vlad bashes anything we don't like is a tacit accomplice of his murderous wake. Christians don't go around poisoning the tea of political critics.

[I want the USA back]

If you are the opposition party in Russia, or a critical journalist, don’t drink tea or coffee.

[Mariner]

“Putin is a killer.”

Every leader of a major nation is a killer. It’s part of the job.

[sport]

It was probably doctored. Which is why I an careful where I eat. I don't care for the extra seasoning the cooks and help in places such Zaxby’s and other places I read about put on it. When I order a cheeseburger, I want a bum. cheese, mayo, patty,onion,Lettuce, pickles,and tomato. I will add salt and pepper. The rest I can do without.

[Rebelbase]

True, but not all have practical, hands-on experience.