From poisoning to prison

Here’s looking back at Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s eventful journey from falling sick mid-air last August to being rushed to a Berlin hospital to getting arrested in Moscow on Sunday

"This is ultimate lawlessness."

— ALEXEI NAVALNY, on his hastily organised courtroom hearing at a police station on the outskirts of the Russian capital

THE STORY SO FAR TAKEN ILL ON A FLIGHT

Navalny is hospitalised in Omsk, Siberia on August 20 after losing consciousness on a flight to Moscow from Tomsk. His team claims he’s been poisoned

RUSHED TO BERLIN

Put into a medically induced coma, he's moved two days later to Charite hospital in Berlin at his family's request

WAS HE POISONED?

German doctors say tests indicate poisoning. On August 27, Russia’s judiciary says a probe found no proof of poisoning

IT’S NOVICHOK

Berlin says tests carried out by a German army lab found evidence that he was a victim of poisoning by Novichok, a Soviet-era chemical-weapon

RUSSIA FACES FLAK PRESSURE German Chancellor Angela Merkel on September 2 asks Russia to clarify. Nato, EU demand a probe

HE’S OUT OF COMA e emerges from the coma and is responsive on eptember 7. Labs in France, Sweden say he was deed poisoned with Novichok

RACES OF NOVICHOK FOUND ter in September, his aides find traces of ovichok on a bottle taken from a Siberia hotel est aye di bf fl li ill

PUTIN ACCUSED

On October 1, Navalny says Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the poisoning

December, Navalny releases a cording of him tricking a Russian y into confessing he tried to kill m by putting poison in his derpants

HE DOOMED RETURN avalny returns to Moscow by light and is detained shortly ter landing