Russian doctors treating Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who fell into a coma after being taken ill on a plane, have changed their minds and agreed to let him be flown to Germany. The doctors, in the Siberian city of Omsk, had earlier insisted he was too ill to be moved.

His supporters suspect he was poisoned, and accuse the authorities of trying to cover up a crime. A medically equipped plane is waiting to take him to Germany for treatment. Reports say he could leave within hours. “The patient’s condition is stable,” Dr Anatoly Kalinichenko was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. “As we’re in possession of a request from relatives to permit him to be transported somewhere, we have now taken the decision that we do not object to his transfer to another in-patient facility.“(BBC)…[+]