In an Instagram post on his official page, Navalny thanked the pilots of the flight for organising an emergency landing in Omsk and the medical professionals who provided urgent care.
"The pilots and first responders, in essence, gave me an additional 15-20 hours of life. Everything that followed was very dramatic and deserves a separate story, but there would definitely be nothing to tell if it were not for these individuals. Thank you, my kind unknown friends. You are good people," Navalny wrote.
Alexei Navalny was hospitalised in the Russian city of Omsk in August after he had fallen ill while on a domestic flight. The Russian doctors fought for Navalny's life for 44 hours non-stop and established that he had a metabolic dysfunction caused by low blood sugar levels. He was later flown to the German clinic Charite, where medics initially found a substance from a group of cholinesterase inhibitors in his system, before claiming to have found traces of a Novichok-like substance in his body.
On Thursday, EU lawmaker passed a resolution, demanding that the bloc work out a list of "ambitious restrictive measures" against Russia over the alleged assassination attempt on Navalny and strengthen the existing sanctions.
Moscow called on Europe to stop trying to lay pre-emptive blame in Navalny's case, adding that the sanctions had an anti-Russian bias.
