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Leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was battling for his life in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after a suspected poisoning as Germany prepared to dispatch an air ambulance to bring him to Europe for treatment.
Navalny, a 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner who is among President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, was hospitalised in the city of Omsk after he lost consciousness on a flight and his plane made an emergency landing.
"Doctors aren't just doing everything possible. The doctors are really working now on saving his life," the hospital's deputy head doctor Anatoly Kalinichenko told journalists in Omsk.
Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said he was on a ventilator in a coma and his condition was serious but stable.
"Alexei has toxic poisoning," Yarmysh wrote on Twitter, describing how he was taken ill during the flight from the city of Tomsk to Moscow.
The hospital has not given any diagnosis while the regional health ministry said Navalny was in a natural, not induced, coma.
His team said the hospital was ill-equipped and his doctor Anastasia Vasilyeva said she had asked for the Kremlin's help to transfer him to a European clinic.
Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel joined French President Emmanuel Macron in expressing concern over Navalny's condition and said he could receive treatment in Germany or France.
"I hope that he can recover and naturally whether it be in France or in Germany he can receive from us all the help and medical support needed," Merkel said in a joint news conference with Macron.
A German group said it was sending an air ambulance with medical equipment and specialists to Russia to pick up Navalny at 2200 GMT (2am UAE, Friday).
"We are in contact with the authorities and hope that all permits for the transport and a medical report for the coma patient will be given tonight," said Jaka Bizilj, who heads the Cinema For Peace foundation.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov wished Navalny a "speedy recovery" adding that the Kremlin would help move him abroad if needed.
Peskov said claims of poisoning were "only assumptions" until tests proved otherwise.
Yarmysh claimed Putin was responsible for poisoning Navalny, saying: "Whether or not he gave the order personally, the blame lies with him."
Amnesty International urged Russia to hold a "prompt and independent investigation".
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