Alexei Navalny Germany, Doctors Bar Kremlin Critic Navalny's Evacuation

 Alexei Navalny Germany, Doctors Bar Kremlin Critic Navalny's Evacuation.

Russian doctors say leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny - who supporters believe was poisoned - remains too ill to be moved to Germany for treatment.

Mr Navalny has been in a coma since Thursday when he fell ill on a flight and his supporters called the doctors' decision "a direct threat to his life".

The doctors say no poison was found in his body.

The prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin has consistently exposed official corruption in Russia.

He has served multiple jail terms.

His team suspects a poisonous substance was put in his tea at an airport cafe in the city of Tomsk as he prepared to fly to Moscow.

German doctors have now been given access to him in hospital, one of his aides told reporters.

At a news conference in Berlin, Leonid Volkov said a medically equipped plane sent from Germany was still waiting for him in the Siberian city of Omsk, where he is in hospital.

In a preliminary diagnosis on Friday, doctors said his condition might be the result of a "metabolic disorder" caused by low blood sugar.

The head doctor at the hospital treating Mr Navalny in Omsk in Siberia said the patient was too unstable to be transferred and that legal questions would need to be resolved before any move.

Mr Navalny's team said it was "deadly" for him to remain in the hospital.

"The ban on the transportation of Navalny is an attempt on his life," his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter.

What's happening with efforts to move him?

The Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation organised an air ambulance to pick up Mr Navalny and bring him back to Berlin, where it said the Charite hospital was ready to treat him.

It said the aircraft had medical equipment and a team specialised in treating coma patients on board.

The Cinema for Peace Foundation was founded by activist and filmmaker Jaka Bizilj. In 2018, it arranged for the treatment of Pyotr Verzilov - an activist with Russian protest group Pussy Riot - who had symptoms of poisoning.

The air ambulance for Mr Navalny arrived in Omsk on Friday morning.

Mr Navalny's wife Yulia has written to President Putin asking him to allow her husband to be moved.

Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the Kremlin would help move Mr Navalny abroad if necessary and wished him a "speedy recovery". On Friday, he said transporting him by air "may pose a threat to his health".

The hospital said it would not hand Mr Navalny over. Yulia Navalnaya told reporters she believed the doctors were seeking to cover up her husband's poisoning.

"We certainly believe that it is done to make sure that a chemical substance which is in Alexei's body will dissolve," she said. "We certainly cannot trust this hospital".

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