The hospital's chairman Karl Max Einhäupl added that his "health condition was improving from day to day and he is no longer in life-threatening danger." Verzilov's estranged wife, Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, toldSunday's edition of Bild that he was the victim of "either an act ofintimidation or attempted murder". "Such substances are extremely rare in drug circles and we have no indication that it was a drug problem," he said. Pussy Riot has repeatedly been in the crosshair of the Russian authorities. In 2012, three of its members, including Tolokonnikova, were arrested forperforming a song protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a centralMoscow church.

Source: The Local September 18, 2018 10:07 UTC