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“#Alexei Navalny thanks ‘unknown friends’ for saving his life<\/strong>”
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\n A relaxed-looking Alexei Navalny posted a touching selfie<\/a> embracing his wife on his road to recovery after being poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent \u2014 and thanked his \u201cgood unknown friends\u201d for saving his life.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old Russian dissident was discharged Wednesday from a Berlin hospital, where he spent over a month after he fell ill from Novichock on a plane from Siberia on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Navalny said he owed his life to the pilots who made an emergency landing and the paramedics who he said had diagnosed poisoning and injected him with atropine, a drug used to treat nerve agents.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin denies poisoning him and says it has seen no evidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I understand \u2026 the killers\u2019 plan was simple: I will feel bad 20 minutes after takeoff, after another 15 minutes I will pass out,\u201d Navalny wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedical assistance will be guaranteed to be unavailable, and in another hour I will continue my journey in a black plastic bag on the last row of seats, terrifying passengers going to the toilet,\u201d he added with his characteristic dark humor.<\/p>\n

Navalny thanked the pilots for diverting to Omsk, despite a bomb warning that was called in to the airport there, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

He also praised the airport medical personnel and ambulance workers who \u201cdid not say any lies about diabetes, etc., but immedia<\/a>tely clearly said: \u2018this is toxic poisoning\u2019 and gave me a dose of atropine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their actions \u201csimply gave me an extra 15-20 hours of life,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThank you unknown good friends. You are good people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conflicting accounts have emerged of when and where Navalny was administered the atropine, which medical experts have said likely saved his life.<\/p>\n

Sources had previously told Reuters that paramedics gave him injections, but not of atropine, and that he received it later at a hospital in Omsk.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n