The police of Russia's city of Omsk have confirmed doctors' conclusions that traces of some chemical substance were found on opposition figure Alexey Navalny's hands and clothes, the regional department of the Interior Ministry said on Friday

Germany maintains contact with Russia in connection with the situation around opposition figure Alexey Navalny, who is currently in intensive care in a Siberian hospital, the foreign ministry's spokeswoman said on Friday

German medical workers have arrived at the Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 to examine Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny's current health condition, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Friday

The wife of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, Yulia, on Friday appealed to President Vladimir Putin to permit her husband's transportation to Germany, Kira Yarmysh, the press secretary of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), posted the scan of the letter on Twitter

Alexander Murakhovsky, the chief physician of the Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, said on Friday that doctors are looking at five suspected diagnoses for Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny's current health condition, which cannot be named yet

Doctors consider a metabolic dysfunction and a plunge in sugar level to be the main working diagnosis in the case of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, the chief doctor at the Omsk hospital where Navalny is being treated said Friday

The diagnosis of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been nearly established in full, but doctors cannot disclose it, the Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 said on Friday, noting that they do not believe he has been poisoned