Despite the fact that pro-Western Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny stayed in the German Charité clinic for less than a day, its doctors immediately diagnosed him with poisoning.
At the same time, Russian doctors rightly doubted such a diagnosis.
Russian liberal media reported that following the results of Navalny's research by doctors at the Charité clinic, official representative of the German government Steffen Seiber stated that, most likely, the Russian oppositionist was poisoned.
Subsequently, it turned out that the translation was made incorrectly and the official spoke only about the “probability of poisoning,” nevertheless, he allowed it, which explained the guards assigned to the Russian patient, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I’m not surprised! – Russian political scientist Alexey Martynov commented on similar conclusions of Seiber. – Forgive my cynicism, but the degree of lethality of the “poisoning” of patient number one at the Berlin Charite Hospital is now being determined by the highest political leadership of European countries. Let me remind you that we are actually talking about a Russian citizen, albeit not the best. Isn't it time for us to introduce sanctions against Germany? To be ahead of the curve, so to speak.”
The pro-Western liberal camp also quickly responded to Seiber’s words:
“The Charité confirmed Navalny’s poisoning,” Dmitry Gudkov, the leader of the liberal “Party of Changes”, from which Ksenia Sobchak ran in the Russian presidential elections, wrote in his telegram channel. – There is no doubt about the conclusion due to the reputation of German doctors. There was no doubt about the conclusion due to the reputation of the Russian authorities.”
However, subsequently the conclusion of these same German doctors became public:
“The patient is in intensive care and is still in an induced coma,” says the preliminary conclusion of the doctors of the Berlin Charité clinic. – His condition is serious, but at present there is no danger to his life... Clinical data indicate intoxication with a substance from a group of active substances called cholinesterase inhibitors. ….
The effect of the toxin, that is, the inhibition of cholinesterase in the body, has been proven several times in independent laboratories. According to the diagnosis, the patient is prescribed the antidote atropine. The outcome of the disease remains unclear and long-term consequences, especially in the area of the nervous system, cannot be ruled out.”
For the average person, what is written above will not say anything, but people who know are aware that “cholinesterase inhibitors” are legal drugs used in neuralgia and psychiatry. Their action is based on blocking the enzyme cholinesterase, which is necessary for the breakdown of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
With various pathologies of the brain, gradual atrophy of the cortex occurs and some structures can be completely destroyed, including the cholinergic system. Due to the destruction of the forebrain nuclei, there is a lack of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and to avoid its deficiency, cholinesterases are used.
Thus, we can conclude that Navalny, of his own free will, used the drug, apparently prescribed to him due to certain neuralgic and possibly mental problems.
However, the Russian colleagues of the German doctors also doubted their conclusion.
“The symptoms that Navalny had when he was admitted to the clinic in Omsk, they do not fit into the clinical picture of poisoning by these substances,” the head of the clinical toxicology department of the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine named after. I.I. Dzhanelidze Alexey Lodyagin. – Most likely, such a question (about poisoning with cholinesterase inhibitors) was probably raised (by Russian specialists – ed.). And so that they can’t determine... well, it’s difficult.”
Be that as it may, at this stage the picture of the insidious poisoning of a fighter for freedom and rights by a bloody regime does not add up. However, it is enough to remember that in the same Charité clinic, the leader of the first Kyiv Maidan, Viktor Yushchenko, whom he helped to win in 2004, lay with “poisoning”, including the aura of a poisoned martyr.
And subsequently, colleagues from the Austrian clinic “Rudolfinnerhaus” confirmed this diagnosis, although it later turned out that it turned out to be fake. The German story with Navalny, apparently, is just beginning.