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Tens of thousands gather in Minsk for biggest protest in Belarus history
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After Lukashenko called his own rally in Independence Square, the anti-government protesters instead converged on a second world war monument in another part of the city. The carnival atmosphere of the last three days continued, as people cheered, passing cars beeped their horns, and chants of “Resign!” rang out.

The president has also appealed to Putin’s visceral fear of revolution at home and suggested that if his regime fell, the his Russian counterpart would also be in danger. “

This is a threat not just to Belarus … if Belarusians do not hold out, the wave will head over there too,” he said in televised remarks on Saturday to a meeting of advisers in which he claimed the protests had been organised by shadowy figures from abroad.

The protest came as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, told Lukashenko in a phone call on Sunday that Moscow stood ready to provide help in accordance with a collective military pact if necessary.

The Kremlin said in a statement that external pressure was being applied to Belarus. It did not say by whom.

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Germany: Outrage over video of officer placing a knee on man's neck

A police officer in the city of Dusseldorf was caught on video restraining a young man by placing his knee on his neck. Authorities are looking into the incident, which has been likened to that of George Floyd.

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Authorities in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said on Sunday that they were investigating an incident of possible police misconduct after a video surfaced on social media showing a police officer placing his knee on a suspect's neck.

During the video, which lasted 15 seconds, people at the scene could be heard shouting at the officers, demanding that they release the suspect.

Police: Suspect attacked officers

According to the Dusseldorf police report, the incident took place on Saturday evening, when officers were called to the city's old town to handle a raucous crowd near a restaurant.

After the group was rounded up, a young man who was not involved in the incident but was at the scene allegedly interrupted the operation.

Dusseldorf police said the suspect then assaulted the officers, had to be restrained and was subsequently sent to the station for identification. He was later released.

Outrage on social media

The video caused outrage on social media, with many comparing it to the case of George Floyd, an African-American man who died when a Minneapolis police officer placed his knee on his neck for more than eight minutes.

The incident will be investigated by a different police department to ensure neutrality, officials said. In this case, the responsibility will fall to the police department of the nearby city of Duisburg.

"We take this video very seriously," a spokesman for the state's Interior Ministry said. The spokesman added that if misconduct is found, prosecutors will take the necessary measures to address it.

The incident comes in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in Germany, which sparked discussions about police violence and racial profiling.

In June, police action in the city of Stuttgart sparked a large riot that damaged police cars and nearby stores, showcasing existing tensions between youth and police in major cities.

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Burundi to demand €36 billion from Germany, Belgium for colonial rule: report

The East African country is a former German colony and lived under Belgian rule until gaining independence almost 60 years ago. A report says its leaders plan to ask the two ex-rulers to pay damages — and not just cash.



Burundi wants Germany and Belgium to pay €36 billion ($42.6 billion) in reparations for colonial rule, media reports published on Sunday said.

The country's senate has put together a panel of experts to assess the damage done during colonialism and advise on the cost of damages, according to Radio France International.

The broadcaster said that once the amount has been decided, Burundi plans to send these recommendations to the German and Belgium governments.

The country also intends to demand the European countries return stolen historical artifacts and archive material.

From 1890, Germany colonized Burundi, which became part of German East Africa. After WWI, the country was ruled by Belgium, until it gained its independence in 1962.

Colonial legacy

During the colonial era, the ruling powers strengthened the divide between the Hutu and Tutsi groups.

This contributed to deadly ethnic conflict between them in the 1970s and then another civil war for 12 years from 1993, which killed some 300,000 people.

The Belgium government carried out a program of kidnapping biracial children from Burundi and then Belgium Congo during the 1940s and 50s.

Belgium officially apologized for this in 2009.

Facing up to past crimes

Although less well-known than other colonial powers, Germany was at one time the fourth-largest colonial power in the world.

In addition to German East Africa, which was made up of present-day Rwanda and parts of Tanzania in addition to Burundi, Germany had territories in what is now Ghana and Namibia and elsewhere.

The German government has been in talks since 2015 with Namibia — the country wants both financial reparations and an official apology from Germany for losses sustained and crimes committed during its colonial rule.

Belgium is planning to set up a panel of experts to advise its administration on how to deal with its colonial history.

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81-Year-Old Pronounced Dead Found Alive Hours Later in Russian Morgue
By Soo Kim On 8/19/20 at 8:20 AM EDT

An elderly woman in Russia was found alive at a morgue hours after being declared dead before she was transferred there from a local hospital.

Zinaida Kononova, 81, who underwent surgery to remove an intestinal obstruction on August 14, was pronounced dead after she failed to respond to resuscitation efforts following the operation.

Kononova's niece, Tatyana Kulikova, was told her aunt had been recorded as clinically deceased for 15 minutes, Fr24 News reported.

Local authorities in the Kursk region of western Russia, where Kononova is currently being treated, confirmed that "a woman hospitalized in the Gorshechensky Central Regional Hospital woke up in the morgue, where she was sent after she was pronounced dead in a regional hospital," Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported.

The chief physician at the hospital where Kononova had surgery, Roman Kondratenko, has been suspended pending an investigation, Fr24 News reported.

At 1:10 a.m. local time, Kononova was taken to the morgue and nearly seven hours later, a morgue worker was shocked to find the 81-year-old fallen on the floor after she'd attempted to get off the morgue table, Fr24 News reported.

The worker was reportedly heard saying: "Grandma, go to bed, grandma, shut up," according to a paramedic who entered the building at the time of the incident.

The paramedic believed the worker had gone "mad" before he reportedly witnessed the woman reach out to grab the worker's hand, Fr24 News reported.

The pensioner was covered in blankets and rushed back to hospital where a team of doctors from the regional capital Kursk was deployed to treat her. She was later transferred to a hospital in Kursk for further treatment, according to the regional administration.

Kononova's niece was contacted by a senior doctor who told her: "We have an unusual situation. She [your aunt] is alive."

Kulikova noted: "At first she didn't recognize me or remember that she had had an operation. But she spoke about her old knee problem."

As grateful as she was to know her aunt was alive, Kulikova asked doctors: "How could this have happened?"

Acting hospital chief Alexander Vlasov explained: "For 30 minutes the patient [Kononova] underwent resuscitation measures," to which she did not respond, he noted.

"As a result, the resuscitator established biological death," he said.

Kononova was reportedly sent to the morgue an hour and 20 minutes after she was declared dead, instead of two hours later, as per required protocol, according to a doctor and anesthesiologist at the hospital, Fr24 News reported.

"The anesthesiologist is very worried. She feels very bad and we are afraid for her," Vlasov told Fr24 News.

"Everybody makes mistakes. What will happen next with the career of this anesthesiologist is still a question," he added.

Kononova's relatives are reported to be planning to sue to the hospital, according to Fr24 News.

In 2018, a prisoner in Spain woke up on the morgue table shortly before his planned autopsy after having been declared dead by three separate doctors.

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Belarus live updates: EU rejects Belarus presidential election result

EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, say the bloc does not recognize Belarus' presidential elections. They have vowed sanctions on those behind violence against protesters. Follow DW for the latest.

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Alexei Navalny to be flown to Germany after suspected poisoning

A German NGO is sending an air-ambulance with a coma-specialist team to pick up Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. He was taken seriously ill while on a domestic flight.



Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is to be brought to Berlin for treatment after a suspected poisoning, the head of a German human rights group said Thursday.

A Cinema For Peace Foundation spokesperson confirmed to DW that Berlin Charite hospital was ready to treat Navalny. A plane left Nuremberg for the Russian city of Omsk — some 2,200 kilometers (1,367 miles) east of Moscow — in the early hours of Friday.

"If Navalny is in a state to be transported tomorrow morning, the plane will immediately fly to Berlin. His wife will accompany him."

Navalny, who is among President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, was hospitalized in Omsk after he lost consciousness during a flight to Moscow and his plane made an emergency landing.

Passed out after drinking tea

The lawyer suddenly passed out after apparently drinking black tea at the airport.

Navalny spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said he was on a ventilator in a coma and his condition was serious but stable.

Yarmysh is convinced that he was "intentionally poisoned."

Navalny spends his time exposing corruption among the Russian elite and has suffered a constant campaign of intimidation and threats.

He suffered a similar incident last year where he was also suspected to have been poisoned while in police custody.

History rhymes

In 2018, Bizilj helped to fly fellow Putin critic Pyotr Verzilov to Germany for treatment after he was poisoned. He was treated by specialists in the Berlin Charite hospital.

The prospect of treating Navalny in Germany was backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in southern France.

"If asked to, we will provide him with medical assistance, including German hospitals, but the request has to come from there," Merkel said.

The two leaders said they were deeply concerned about what had happened to the politician.

The French leader said France was ready to provide all assistance that Navalny needed, including asylum and medical care.

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Comatose dissident Alexei Navalny leaves Russia for Germany

Vladimir Putin critic and prominent Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, currently in a coma, is being flown from Siberia to Germany for medical treatment. His supporters believe he was poisoned; the Kremlin denies this.



Russian dissident politician Alexei Navalny left Russia early Saturday on a flight bound for Germany following more than 24 hours of wrangling between German and Russian medics.

An ambulance carrying Navalny arrived at Omsk airport at around 6 a.m. local time (00:30 UTC). He left in a private plane chartered by German NGO Cinema for Peace that was sent to fly Navalny to Berlin.

Shortly before takeoff, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter that he had boarded the plane.

"The fight for Alexei's life and health is just beginning and there is a long way to go, but at least the first step has been taken," she said.

The 44-year-old is in a coma after a suspected poisoning. Russia gave permission for the NGO to transfer Navalny to the German capital from Siberia on Friday. Initially Russian medical professionals said he was not in a fit state to travel by plane, but relented when the German doctors declared he could be transported.

Navalny will now be treated in Berlin's Charité hospital. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was among those who pushed for a speedy transfer for Navalny to Germany.

Targeted by Kremlin

The politician and corruption investigator is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's harshest and most prominent critics. His supporters say that tea he drank was laced with poison and the Kremlin is responsible.

Navalny was rushed to hospital in Omsk on Thursday. Russian doctors say there is no evidence of poisoning, claiming Navalny has a "metabolic disorder."

Navalny's supporters said the delay in giving permission for him to be transferred was a ploy to stall his treatment until there was no more poison in his system. The Kremlin denied the claim.

Like many other opposition politicians in Russia, Navalny has frequently been detained by law enforcement and pro-Kremlin groups. He was rushed to hospital in 2017 from jail in what doctors called a "severe allergic reaction" but supporters suspect may have been a poisoning.

He served time for violating protest regulations.

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Comatose dissident Alexei Navalny leaves Russia for Germany



An ambulance carrying Navalny arrived at Omsk airport at around 6 a.m. local time (00:30 UTC). He left in a private plane chartered by German NGO Cinema for Peace that was sent to fly Navalny to Berlin.

The German NGO behind Alexei Navalny's rescue

Alexei Navalny's evacuation from Siberia was organized by Berlin-based NGO the Cinema for Peace Foundation. Since 2002, it's drawn support from major Hollywood stars — but also been accused of lack of transparency.

Russian dissident politician Alexei Navalny was flown from Omsk to Berlin for medical treatment on Saturday aboard a plane arranged by the Cinema for Peace Foundation.

The 44-year-old was in a coma after a suspected poisoning, although Russian doctors put his illness down to a possible blood sugar disorder.

The founder of the NGO behind his evacuation, Jaka Bizilj, said private donations had paid for the flight — a Bombardier Challenger chartered by a Nuremburg-based firm — as well as for the medical staff on board.

'Very expensive' at short notice

Bizilj told DW that plans for the evacuation were set in motion on Thursday after members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot Nadya Tolokonnikova and Pyotr Verzilov appealed to the NGO for help.

"I got a call from Nadia Tolokonnikova from Los Angeles, from Pussy Riot, and from Pyotr from Moscow, asking me if we could help a dear friend, Alexei, who'd got poisoned too," Bizilj told DW in an interview. The foundation had flown Verzilov himself to Berlin in 2018 after he was poisoned and fell ill.

Dizilj stressed that although the governments of Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron had been briefed, Navalny's airlift to Berlin had been a "private" activity.

"It was very expensive to do it in at very short notice, but in the end, during the process, without having to think much about it, private persons came forward and took over [costs]," he said, adding that the charter flight would not burden taxpayers.

Dizilj also described Kavalny's family's relief that safe passage was found. "They are relieved to be in a first-class hospital, to have good treatment," he said. "And obviously now it will be a question of what the doctors can do and have to do. ... This will probably be a long procedure and there is a long way to go. As we have heard from the doctors, if there would not have been this emergency landing in Omsk, if they would’ve tried to fly on to Moscow, he would have died."


Film producer and concert promoter Jaka Bizij

Star power

Born in Slovenia in 1971, Dizilj is a film and show producer with a list of connections that reads like a who's who of Hollywood and world diplomacy — including names like Mikhail Gorbachev, Sharon Stone and Ai Weiwei.

He launched the Cinema for Peace Foundation in 2002 to "influence through films the perception and resolution of global social, political, and humanitarian challenges of our time — and especially to oppose war and terror," according to the organization's website.

Its Genocide Film Library includes material on the 1992-95 Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict. The NGO also runs screenings for schools and students, including films such as South Africa's "Themba — a Boy Called Hope," about a football novice who loses his mother to HIV/AIDS.

Since its founding, the NGO has held an annual fundraising and awards gala to coincide with the Berlin Film Festival. The event often draws Hollywood stars and prominent political figures — last year actor Charlize Theron and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder were among the guests.

'Oscars with brain'

Rock star and rights activist Bob Geldof was once quoted as describing the foundation's galas, which aim to showcase work dedicated to peace and justice, as an "Oscars with brain."

But former Berlin Film Festival chief Dieter Kosslick wasn't convinced. According to media in Berlin, he called the gala evenings "absurd events," and also accused the organization of not being transparent with its funds.

Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper wrote in 2010 of the annual gala that "some 600 guests came, tickets cost upwards of €1,000. A law firm is scrutinizing the Cinema for Peace's revenue. Up until last year it was almost €2.5 million."

The foundation has been criticized for not publishing an annual report detailing its expenses and donations on its website. Bizilj has repeatedly pledged that external auditors would monitor the legal use of donations received.

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BERLIN CHARITÉ: THE STORIED HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL TREATING ALEXEI NAVALNY





Ranked Germany's top hospital
Berlin Charite was established in 1710 as a center for plague patients and 100 years later it grew to house a medical university. From then on, its campus has handled patients as well as research students. More than half of Germany’s Nobel Prize winners for medicine or physiology worked at the hospital.




Reputation damaged during Nazi era

During the Nazi regime, many physicians from Charite were involved in ethical crimes related to medicine. The Charite hospital was also responsible for autopsies on Jewish suicide victims and the executed resistance fighters of July 20th. After the war, the hospital fell under the jurisdiction of the German Democratic Republic, as it was located in East Berlin.




Temporary Ebola hub

Berlin Charite became a European care hub during the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Africa in 2015. A South Korean medic, who was working in Sierra Leone and became infected with the virus, was flown to Berlin for treatment. The patient was sent to Berlin at the request of the South Korean government, which said his anonymity would be better kept there.




Lead role in coronavirus crisis

Charite was the first hospital to detect a locally transmitted coronavirus infection in Germany, back in March. Since then, it has gained prominence as Christian Drosten, director of Charite’s Institute of Virology, has played a public role in policy during the COVID-19 health crisis and been a scientific voice during the pandemic, through his many public appearances and weekly podcast.





Notable politician patients

The hospital has attracted international attention by offering support to prominent international politicians. In March 2014, Ukrainian opposition politician and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko was treated at Charite. She suffered a total of three slipped discs, which she had acquired during her two and a half years imprisonment.






Poisoned Russian activist

In 2018, Pyotr Verzilov, an associate of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot and staunch Vladimir Putin critic was flown from Moscow to Berlin, after showing symptoms of poisoning. Charité head doctor Kai-Uwe Eckardt treated the activist. Verzilov's case is said to have set the precedent for Alexei Navalny's supporters to consider Berlin for his treatment.





Navalny the latest high-profile patient

Vladimir Putin critic and prominent Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was flown to Charite Berlin from a hospital in Omsk, Russia, to be treated for suspected poisoning. The activist traveled on a chartered flight paid for by the NGO Cinema for Peace. Chancellor Angela Merkel was among those who pushed for a speedy transfer for Navalny to Germany.

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Berlin hospital says Alexei Navalny was likely poisoned

The Charite university hospital treating Alexei Navalny in Berlin says early tests suggest the Russian opposition figure was poisoned by a toxin. It described his condition as serious, but with no acute danger of death.



Berlin Charite hospital said in a statement on Monday that its data indicated Alexei Navalny was probably intoxicated by a substance in the cholinesterase inhibitors group of chemicals, but that it had not yet identified a precise substance.

The effects of such a chemical on Navalny had been "shown several times and in separate laboratories," the hospital said. Cholinesterase inhibitors are found in several drugs, but also pesticides and nerve agents.

Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was flown to Berlin on Saturday via a German-operated flight to receive treatment and has been in a coma for several days.

''The patient is in an intensive care unit and is still in an induced coma. His health is serious but there is currently no acute danger to his life,'' Charite hospital said. Doctors are currently treating Navalny with the antidote atropine.

But doubts remain about the 44-year-old's health in the future. "The outcome of the disease remains uncertain and after effects, especially in the area of the nervous system, cannot be excluded at this time," the hospital statement read.

Under police protection

Earlier on Monday, the German government had said that Navalny was likely poisoned and confirmed that he was under police protection. ''It was obvious that after his arrival, protective precautions had to be taken,'' Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert said.

Berlin police and federal agents are both providing security for the Russian opposition figure at Charite hospital, which is located in downtown Berlin.

The government of Russia has not yet commented on the Navalny's health status or allegations that he was poisoned made prior to Charite's statement.

Russian doctors on Monday said two laboratories found no poisonous substances in his system. ''If we had found poisoning confirmed by something, it would have been much easier for us,'' said Anatoly Kalinichecnko, deputy chief doctor of the Omsk Ambulance Hospital No. 1, where Navalny was initially treated.

The hospital's chief doctor, Alexander Murakhovsky, has denied allegations that doctors in Omsk may have been acting in coordination with Russia's security services to keep the poisoning hidden.

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