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Top doctor who treated Navalny missing in forest
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The former head of the Russian hospital which treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last year is missing for a third day in a Siberian forest.
The swampy area is hard to access and a helicopter and drones are being used in the search, in the Omsk region.
Dr Alexander Murakhovsky, 49, left a hunting base on Friday and his all-terrain vehicle was found later.
Navalny was treated in Omsk, then in Berlin. Western experts concluded that he had been poisoned with nerve agent.
Two senior doctors at the Omsk hospital died aged 55 and 63 this year.
The hospital, headed by Dr Murakhovsky last year, insisted that it had found no trace of nerve agent while treating Navalny, who collapsed last August and nearly died.
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The Kremlin has repeatedly denied allegations that Russian state agents tried to kill Navalny. Lab tests in three Western countries, confirmed by the global chemical weapons watchdog, established that the Russian nerve agent Novichok had poisoned him.
Police, an emergencies ministry team and volunteers are searching a swampy forest about 2,200km (1,370 miles) east of Moscow.
Dr Murakhovsky's vehicle was found about 6.5km from the hunting base, which is in the village of Pospelovo. The doctor is currently health minister for the Omsk region.
Navalny is the most prominent Russian critic of President Vladimir Putin, whom he accused of having ordered the Novichok attack.
Since February Navalny has been in jail in a penal colony, serving a term of nearly three years for an old embezzlement case. He called the conviction fraudulent and politically motivated.
The top medical team at the Omsk hospital which treated Navalny has changed since it was in the world media spotlight last year.
A deputy to Dr Murakhovsky - intensive care specialist Dr Sergei Maximishin - died in February aged 55, from a heart attack.
In March the hospital's traumatology chief, Dr Rustam Agishev, died aged 63. He had had a stroke in December.
Dr Murakhovsky left in November, to head the Omsk regional health service. Another of his deputies, Anatoly Kalinichenko, had resigned in October.
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