Moscow:
A Siberian medical doctor who treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny following he collapsed on a flight in Russia last year has gone missing, Russian police mentioned on Sunday.
Police in the Omsk area, about 2,200 km (1,370 miles) east of Moscow, mentioned doctor Alexander Murakhovsky had left a hunting base in a forest on an all-terrain automobile on Friday and had not been seen because.
It mentioned that emergency services, drones, a helicopter and volunteers on the ground had joined the search work.
Murakhovsky was the head medical doctor at the hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk that treated Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic. Murakhovsky was subsequently promoted to the post of regional wellness minister.
After tense negotiations with the authorities, Navalny was airlifted to Germany from Omsk for additional remedy.
Laboratory tests in 3 European nations, 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 attempted to kill Navalny. He was jailed in February on what he mentioned have been trumped up charges.
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