Kremlin critic Navalny fights for life after suspected poisoning

Putin critic was flying from Siberia to Moscow when his plane made an emergency landing after he fell ill.Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, according to his spokeswoman.Kira Yarmysh said on Thursday that Navalny, 44, was flying from Siberia to Moscow after a work trip to Tomsk when his plane made an emergency landing after he fell ill.He is in the intensive care unit for toxicology patients in Emergency Hospital No 1 in the Siberian city of Omsk, according to the TASS state news agency.An ambulance aircraft with a team specialised in treating coma patients is due to leave Germany later on Thursday to pick him up, the Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation said."For humanitarian reasons, at Pussy Riot's Pyotr Verzilov’s request, we will send at midnight an air ambulance with medical equipment and specialists with which Navalny can be brought to Germany," the foundation said in a statement.Earlier in the day, doctors gave contradictory information about his condition, saying it had stabilised but also that there was still a threat to his life and they were working to save him."We think that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed in his tea.