Police officers at the Charite clinic in Berlin, where politician Alexei Navalny is
The Russian Embassy in Berlin demanded that the German authorities provide consular access to Alexei Navalny. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a source.
The Russian diplomatic mission asked the German Foreign Ministry for the opportunity for the consul to meet with the Russian in accordance with the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. According to the 36th article of the convention, representatives of the consulate can freely communicate with the citizens of their state and must have access to them.
On September 2, the German government said that military toxicologists had found traces of a substance from the Novichok group in Navalny's body, and called on the Russian government to respond to this information. Russian doctors say that no poisons were found in the patient's analyzes. On September 10, it became known that Navalny had completely recovered. On September 14, he was disconnected from the artificial lung ventilation (ALV) apparatus, and the Russian was able to get out of the hospital bed.
