Siberian physician who handled Kremlin critic Navalny goes lacking, police say

A Siberian physician who handled Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he collapsed on a flight in Russia final yr has gone lacking, Russian police mentioned on Sunday.
Police within the Omsk area, about 2,200 km (1,370 miles) east of Moscow, mentioned doctor Alexander Murakhovsky had left a looking base in a forest on an all-terrain car on Friday and had not been seen since.
It mentioned that emergency providers, drones, a helicopter and volunteers on the bottom had joined the search effort.
Murakhovsky was the top physician on the hospital within the Siberian metropolis of Omsk that handled Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most outstanding critic. Murakhovsky was subsequently promoted to the submit of regional well being minister.
After tense negotiations with the authorities, Navalny was airlifted to Germany from Omsk for additional remedy.Laboratory assessments in three European international locations, confirmed by the worldwide chemical weapons watchdog, established that Navalny had been poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent.

The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected any suggestion that Russian authorities tried to kill Navalny. He was jailed in February on what he mentioned had been trumped up expenses.