Navalny out of hospital, ‘complete recovery possible’

Alexei Navalny is ‘‘free to return’’ to Russia after the opposition leader was discharged from a German hospital following weeks in a coma, the Kremlin said yesterday. After being taken to intensive care for a poisoning in August, Navalny has now been released from inpatient care, the Charite hospital in Berlin said. German doctors also said they now believe that ‘‘complete recovery is possible’’ for Navalny, while adding that it was too early to talk about potential long-term damage from the poisoning. Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told Russian news agencies that there were no obstacles for Navalny to return: ‘‘He is free to do it at any moment like any other Russian citizen.’’