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He attempted to stand in the 2018 presidential race but was barred because of previous fraud convictions in a case he again said was politically motivated.
Last week he was accused of stirring mass protests in Belarus by the country's authoritarian leader, President Alexander Lukashenko. Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess died from novichok poisoning after her partner Charlie Rowley found a contaminated bottle discarded by the perpetrators, believing it to be a perfume bottle.
And last year, in detention, he suffered an allergic reaction his doctor said might have been the result of poison.Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman at his anti-corruption foundation, Kira Yarmysh, who was sitting next to him on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow when he fell ill, says he is in a coma and hooked up to a ventilator.
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