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Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has been discharged after his near-fatal poisoning.
He could potentially make a full recovery, according to the German hospital that has been treating him since last month.
Navalny became seriously ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow on August 20.
He was initially hospitalized in the city of Omsk, before being flown to the Charité hospital in Berlin two days later.
"The patient's condition has improved enough to allow him to be discharged from acute hospital care," said a statement from Berlin's Charité Hospital published on Wednesday, one day after the Kremlin critic left the hospital.
"Alexey Navalny has been receiving treatment at Charité for a total of 32 days, of which 24 were spent in intensive care," he said.
“Based on the patient's progress and his current condition, the treating doctors believe that a full recovery is possible.
However, it is still too early to assess the possible long-term effects of his severe poisoning.
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The German government has said that Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era Novichok group chemical agent.
Two other laboratories in France and Sweden supported the conclusion.
Multiple questions
The Kremlin has flatly denied any involvement, but multiple questions remain.
Novichok was also used in a March 2018 attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.
And several Russian dissidents have been poisoned in the past.
In an update posted to Instagram on Saturday, Navalny had said that she still couldn't use her phone properly or pour herself a glass of water.
But he said he was on a "clear path" to recovery.
He posted a photo of himself going down a ladder, writing that he was regaining his physical and mental capacity.
Two days later, the politician demanded that the Russian authorities return the clothes he was wearing on the day he fell ill.
"Before I was allowed to go to Germany, they took off all my clothes and sent me there completely naked," he said in a statement.
"Considering the fact that Novichok was found on my body, and there is very likely a contact method of poisoning, my clothing is very important material evidence."
Monday's statement coincided with the due date of a preliminary investigation into the incident by Russian authorities, which did not result in a criminal investigation.
Navalny spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said the Russian government had turned a blind eye to the incident.
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: Navalny fell ill after drinking from a poisoned water bottle in his hotel room, say his assistants
Last week, Navalny's aides said they had brought items from his hotel room in Tomsk to Germany.
There, a lab later found traces of a nerve agent in one of the water bottles he apparently drank from.
Navalny's colleague who collected the items in Tomsk, Chief Investigator Georgy Alburov, previously told CNN that the water bottle was not necessarily the item that was used to poison the Kremlin critic.
This suggests that the substance could have been put on a different object.
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