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Alexej Navalny and his wife Julia on a balcony of the Berlin Charité
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The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is on the mend after being poisoned - and is also back in the political discussion with a blog entry.
"I didn't expect anything else" - with these words Navalny commented on the fact that there is no Russian preliminary investigation and it is claimed on Russian talk shows that Western states or his own supporters could be behind the poison attack on him.
The Russian authorities also claimed that no nerve agent had been found, Navalny wrote in his first blog post since the attack.
Two independent laboratories in France and Sweden and a special Bundeswehr laboratory had confirmed traces of Novichok in and on his body.
"None of this exists in the political and legal reality of Russia."
Navalny asked the Russian authorities to return the clothes that had been taken from him before his flight to Germany.
"When you consider that Novichok was found on my body and that physical contact poisoning is very likely, my clothes are very important evidence."
The treating doctors in the hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk said, according to the Interfax news agency, that investigators had taken the clothes.
On Instagram, Navalny also shared a photo with his wife Julia with the words: "Now I know from experience: love heals and brings you back to life."
He remembers little since he was poisoned, but his partner helped him heal a lot.
"Julia, you saved me," wrote the 44-year-old.
Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation terminates cooperation with police in Tomsk
Navalny had collapsed on August 20 on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow and two days later, at the insistence of his family and supporters, was taken to Berlin University Hospital Charité for treatment.
According to the German government, the opposition was "undoubtedly" poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novitschok group that had been developed in the former Soviet Union.
Moscow rejects the suspicion that Russian government agencies may have deliberately poisoned Navalny.
The Siberian police announced on Monday that they had questioned around 200 people during preliminary investigations into the case.
For his part, Ivan Zhdanov, director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said his staff would no longer work with the Tomsk police.
He accused the authorities of trying to hide a crime.
"We will not take part in that."
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