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Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny in a coma after suspected poisoning

Police detain a protester with a sign reading Navalny, Live outside the Russian Federal Security Service building in Moscow.

Police detain a protester with a sign reading Navalny, Live outside the Russian Federal Security Service building in Moscow. Source: Getty

The 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner is among President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics and the latest in a long line of Kremlin critics to fall suddenly ill.



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