I’m afraid that now even the unshakable authority of “Dr.” Murakhovsky — the former chief physician of Omsk Emergency Hospital and now the health minister of the Omsk Region — will not be enough.
Of course, soon enough, television will tell us: how can some pathetic *Lancet* — merely the world’s leading scientific medical journal — be compared with the great luminaries Murakhovsky and Sabaev and their “metabolic disorder” theory.
Nevertheless, today the Charité hospital, where I spent a month, published a press release on its website. It is titled “Eighth and Final Statement on the Navalny Case.”
The statement is brief: the team of doctors who treated Navalny has published data on their work in *The Lancet*.
The article is co-authored by 14 professors of medicine, and it is titled “Novichok nerve agent poisoning.”
The general conclusions in Russian translation are available here:
Overall, it is exactly as Kudryavtsev, the chemist-assassin, said: if the plane had not landed, then within two hours everything would have unfolded according to a very different scenario.
And isn’t that interesting: those 14 German professors write nothing about either diabetes or pancreatitis. They found nothing of the sort in me. Apparently, Murakhovsky was simply using an especially sensitive stethoscope that Charité did not have. A cutting-edge product of the domestic “defense industry”!
And most importantly, Vladimir Putin can now breathe a little easier. At every press conference he would wring his hands and exclaim: when will the Germans finally hand over the data?
What data he was referring to is unclear: the same blood samples were taken both in Omsk and in Berlin.
But now that no longer matters. The medical data have been published and are available to the whole world.