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Senior doctor of Russian hospital where Navalny was cured after poisoning dies suddenly – CNN

A person (R) in Moscow watches a video on social media showing Russian opposition activist and anti-corruption fund head Alexei Navalny being carried on a stretcher by an ambulance team, in Omsk, Russia, 20 August 2020. Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on social media on 20 August that the opposition leader and critic of President Vladimir Putin was taken to hospital for alleged poisoning after he started feeling unwell during a flight from Siberia to Moscow. The plane made an emergency landing in the city of Omsk. EPA-EFE/SERGEI CHIRIKOV

CNN – A senior doctor at the Russian hospital where opposition leader Alexey Navalny was treated immediately after his poisoning last summer has died, the hospital said on Thursday.

CNN reports that the hospital announced that Sergey Maximishin, who was the deputy chief physician of the Omsk emergency hospital, “suddenly” died at the age of 55.

The statement did not did not mention the cause of death.

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