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Officials: Hunger-striking Navalny to go to prison hospital

by Daria Litvinova
| April 19, 2021 5:06 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike while behind bars, will be admitted to a hospital in another prison, the Russian state penitentiary service said Monday, after the politician's doctor said he could be near death.

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