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Navalny in danger, letter warns EU foreign ministers
By EUobserver
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is suffering from "multiple hernias and protrusions in his spine" and a "heavy cough and fevers", which could indicate tuberculosis, but he is being denied outside medical attention, while prison doctors give him basic painkillers, his associates said in a letter to EU foreign ministers meeting Monday. Concerns for his safety should be "one of the focal points" of the ministers' discussions, they added.