Longtime Putin critic Alexei Navalny in a coma after suspected poisoning

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison. The deputy chief physician at the hospital in Omsk, Russia where Navalny is in intensive care, told reporters there was “no certainty that the cause of his condition is poisoning.”

A regional health ministry spokeswoman, Tatyana Shakirova, confirmed that Navalny has been hospitalized in Omsk and said doctors assessed his condition as serious.

"Doctors are doing everything possible to stabilize his condition," she said. "The poisoning version is one of several versions being considered. It's not possible now to say what the reason was."

Navalny, a 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption activist, has served many stints in jail for organizing anti-Kremlin protests and has been physically attacked in the street by pro-government activists.

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