By Anton Zverev
MOSCOW, April 19 (Reuters) - An ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday she was braced for bad news on the health of the hunger-striking opposition politician when his lawyers see him again, after they were kept away over the weekend.
Navalny, a prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, started refusing food on March 31 in protest at what he said was the refusal of prison authorities to provide him with adequate medical care for acute leg and back pain. We don t know what happened to him over the weekend because the lawyers aren t allowed to visit him then. I hope we will get some news today but I m very afraid to receive bad news, his ally, Lyubov Sobol, told Ekho Moskvy radio station.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - An ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday she was braced for bad news on the health of the hunger-striking opposition politician when his lawyers see him again, after they were kept away over the weekend.
FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a hearing to consider an appeal against an earlier court decision to change his suspended sentence to a real prison term, in Moscow, Russia February 20, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Navalny, a prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, started refusing food on March 31 in protest at what he said was the refusal of prison authorities to provide him with adequate medical care for acute leg and back pain.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) -The Czech Republic said on Sunday it had informed NATO and European Union allies about suspected Russian involvement in a 2014 ammunition depot explosion and the matter would be addressed at an EU foreign ministers meeting on Monday. The central European country expelled 18 Russian embassy staff on Saturday over the issue and said investigations had linked Russian intelligence to the explosion, which killed two people. Responding to the expulsions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian media on Saturday: “Prague is well aware of what follows these types of games.” Russia s Interfax news agency cited Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy head of the Russian upper house s international affairs committee, as saying Prague s assertions were absurd and Russia s response should be proportionate. The expulsions and allegations by the Czechs have triggered its biggest dispute with Russia since the 1989 end of Communist rule, when Prague was under M
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PRAGUE, April 18 (Reuters) - The Czech Republic said on Sunday it had informed NATO and European Union allies about suspected Russian involvement in a 2014 ammunition depot explosion and the matter would be addressed at an EU foreign ministers meeting on Monday.
The central European country expelled 18 Russian embassy staff on Saturday over the issue and said investigations had linked Russian intelligence to the explosion, which killed two people.
Responding to the expulsions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian media on Saturday: “Prague is well aware of what follows these types of games.”