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search was launched in the forests of the Omsk region, about
2,200 km (1,370 miles) east of Moscow, after physician Alexander
Murakhovsky left a forest hunting base in an all-terrain vehicle
on Friday.
Murakhovsky exited the forest himself and made contact with
residents of the village of Basly, RIA news agency quoted the
Omsk regional government as saying.
He was in "normal condition" though was being examined at
Bolsheukovsky District Hospital as a precaution, RIA cited the
authorities as saying.
Murakhovsky was head doctor at the hospital in the Siberian city
of Omsk that treated Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most
prominent critic, after he collapsed on a flight last year.
After tense negotiations with the authorities, Navalny was
airlifted to Germany from Omsk for further treatment.
Laboratory tests in three European countries, confirmed by the
global chemical weapons watchdog, established that Navalny had
been poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent.
The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected any suggestion that Russian
authorities tried to kill Navalny. Upon his return to Russia in
February, he was jailed on what he said were trumped up charges.
(Writing by Polina Ivanova; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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