24 Sep 2020

Alexei Navalny discharged from Berlin hospital

From Morning Report, 6:17 am on 24 September 2020

The prominent Russian government critic, Alexei Navalny, has been discharged from a German hospital, one month after what Berlin authorities say was his poisoning from the nerve agent novichok.

After Navalny collapsed on a flight in Siberia, his supporters pointed the finger at the Kremlin and those accusations were supported by the findings of German medical staff.

It is too early to gauge the long-term health effects on Navalny but attention now turns to the political headache this has created.

Germany correspondent Thomas Sparrow speaks to Susie Ferguson.