{"id":400831,"date":"2020-09-19T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400831"},"modified":"2020-09-19T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T14:12:08","slug":"russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-sees-long-recovery-after-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-sees-long-recovery-after-coma\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Opposition leader Alexey Navalny sees long recovery after coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"FirstEle\">\n<p>Moscow<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>-Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said he\u2019s on a clear road to recovery, \u201calthough not a short one,&#8221; and thanked his doctors in Germany in an Instagram post Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>A month after falling sick on a plane bound for Moscow from a campaign trip in Siberia, poisoned with what Germany identified as the weapons-grade nerve agent Novichok, Navalny said he can now identify people and remember words. But he can\u2019t yet perform tasks such as using his phone or pouring himself a glass of water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot long ago, I didn\u2019t recognize people and didn\u2019t understand how to talk,&#8221; Navalny said. \u201cI also did not know how to express my despair and therefore simply kept silent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Navalny, who has built a following of millions with online videos exposing high-level corruption in Russia, returned to social media on Tuesday with a photograph of himself in a hospital bed, flanked by his wife and children. He joked that breathing on one\u2019s own is \u201ca surprising process, underestimated by many.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His allies said Navalny, 44, planned to return to Russia. He was evacuated to Germany at his family\u2019s insistence, over the objection of doctors in Omsk, where the plane he was on made an emergency landing. Russia hasn\u2019t opened an investigation, saying the doctors found no proof he was poisoned. Germany has demanded an explanation from the Kremlin, and the incident has triggered a new downward spiral in Russia\u2019s ties with Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019m a guy whose legs are shaking when he walks up the stairs, but he thinks: \u2018Oh, this is a staircase! People climb them. Maybe it\u2019s better to find an elevator.\u2019 And before, I would have just stood there and stared,&#8221; Navalny said in Saturday\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow(SONNA)-Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said he\u2019s on a clear road to recovery, \u201calthough not a short one,&#8221; and thanked his doctors in Germany in an Instagram post Saturday. A month after falling sick on a plane bound for Moscow from a campaign trip in Siberia, poisoned with what Germany identified as the weapons-grade nerve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400833,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400831\/revisions\/400833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}