Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Posts Hospital Photo Of Himself. Vows To Return To Russia

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Daily Mail: Back from the dead: Defiant Putin foe Alexei Navalny is pictured for first time since he was poisoned by novichok 26 days ago as he poses on hospital bed surrounded by his family

* Navalny said he was 'able to breathe on my own all day' a month after poisoning
* Berlin hospital doctors say the Putin critic's condition 'continues to improve'
* Navalny was taken ill in August in what Germany says was a nerve agent attack

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny posed on his German hospital bed with his family today and announced he could breathe by himself a month after he was poisoned with Novichok.

Taunting the Kremlin in a defiant Instagram post, Navalny appeared with his wife Yulia and their two children from the Berlin hospital where he was flown for treatment after falling ill.

'Hello, this is Navalny,' he said. 'I can still hardly do anything, but yesterday I was able to breathe on my own all day. Actually on my own, no extra help.

'I liked it very much. It's a remarkable process that is underestimated by many. Strongly recommended,' Navalny said in his first social media post for 26 days.

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WNU Editor: He is very lucky to be alive.

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