Navalny was arrested on January 17 when he returned to Russia from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from poisoning he blames on the Kremlin [File: Press service of Simonovsky District Court/Handout via Reuters]
* Putin's rival is serving two-and-a-half years after being imprisoned in February
* Six months earlier he barely survived Novichok poisoning he blames on Kremlin
* He then went on a hunger strike to demand proper medical treatment for pain
* Now his doctors have warned in social media posts that 'Alexei is dying'
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny 'is dying' and could suffer a cardiac arrest at 'any minute', his doctor warned today as medics are barred from the penal colony.
Vladimir Putin's most prominent rival, 44, was imprisoned in February and is serving two-and-a-half years on old embezzlement charges in the town of Pokrov, around 60 miles east of Moscow.
Six months earlier, he barely survived a poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent, which he has blamed on the Kremlin.
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