Today I got a call from the Federal Migration Service (Russia’s former passport and migration authority): come and pick up your international passport.
I thought it must be some pranksters. After all, they hadn’t issued me a passport for five years. But it was true: I came in and got it.
Apparently, there is some kind of “medical truce.” Now I can go for examination and treatment to one of the clinics that specialize in eye burns.
A lot of people ask: can’t this be treated in Russia? Are the doctors bad? It can, and the doctors are good. I’m being treated intensively by the very best. They’re outstanding professionals and wonderful people. They very kindly and warmly calm me down when they see me slipping into mild horror at the idea of injections into the cornea and having things pulled out of my eye with tweezers. It’s just that they themselves recommend that I go to specialized clinics, especially given that a corneal transplant may be on the horizon.
Yesterday’s test showed that I have 15% vision in my right eye. But there is still hope, and we’re going to keep treating it.
(the eye in the photo isn’t mine. it’s just there as an attention-grabbing image)
P.S. Today at 20:18 I’ll be live on Navalny.Live