Kremlin foe recovering

AN anti-Kremlin activist lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week but is doing better since he arrived in Berlin for treatment, two friends say.

Pyotr Verzilov, publisher of a Russian online news outlet and married to a member of the anti-Kremlin band Pussy Riot, arrived in Berlin from Moscow late on Saturday on a medical transport plane.

Verzilov, 30, became ill after attending a court hearing in Moscow on Tuesday and later suffered seizures while in an ambulance en route to a hospital in Moscow.