In 2020, Alexei Navalny lay in a coma in an Omsk hospital. He had been poisoned with the nerve agent novichok in an FSB assassination attempt and Russian doctors appeared keen to leave him there until he died.
But his wife, Yulia, stepped in. She flew to Omsk to confront hospital staff, bringing along camera crews to put pressure on doctors and appealing directly to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to release her husband. Soon, Navalny was evacuated to Germany, where he recovered at Berlin’s Charité hospital.
