Alexei Navalny's wife asks Putin to let him be treated in Germany
by Andrew Roth in Moscow and Graham Russell from on (#575J4)
Letter appeals to Russian leader after doctors refuse to allow Kremlin critic to leave country
The wife of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has appealed directly to Vladimir Putin to allow her husband to be evacuated to a clinic in Germany to receive treatment for a suspected poisoning.
Doctors treating Navalny in the Siberian city of Omsk have refused to release him for evacuation to a clinic abroad, sparking a standoff with his family and aides who say his life is in danger in Russia.
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