Politics in Russia is quite high. Russia's leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny declared on Saturday that he could now walk with a "tremble" and gave the first detailed account of his recovery nearly a month after being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent. The 44-year-old Kremlin critic posted a photo of himself strolling downstairs on Instagram and explained how earlier symptoms had included the inability to form words. "Now I am a guy whose legs tremble when he takes the stairs," he wrote, detailing moments of "despair" as doctors help him overcome the effects of the nerve agent.

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This latest update on his progress came after he posted to Instagram on Tuesday that he had spent the first day breathing without any assistance, writing ironically: "It's an amazing process that's undervalued by many. I recommend it." The anti-corruption campaigner fell ill on a plane from Siberia to Moscow on August 20 and spent two days in a Russian hospital before being flown to Berlin's Charite hospital. Navalny stated in his update that during the initial days of his healing, he had needed therapy to help him recover his speech as he struggled to form words.

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Navalny, who said that he did not remember the early stage of his recovery, thanked the "fantastic doctors" treating him at Charite hospital. He now saw a "clear path, although not a short one" to recovery, he said. The message is typical of Navalny's fluent, ironic style of writing. An avid user of social media, Navalny said he hoped soon to "become the highest form of life in modern society" and be "able to scroll through Instagram and add likes without thinking about it".

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