Alexei Navalny could be incapacitated for months, says ally

Russian opposition leader's wife visits him in Berlin hospital as founder of NGO that evacuated him to Germany says he is expected to survive

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny will survive what his allies believe was a poisoning but could be out of action for months, the founder of the activist group that sent the air ambulance to fly him to Germany has said.

Navalny will survive the poison attack, but be incapacitated for months as a politician," Jaka Bizilj, the founder of the NGO Cinema for Peace Foundation, told German tabloid Bild on Sunday.