Angela Merkel Has a Putin Problem, Again

Police vehicles stand outside the Charite Hospital as Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny undergoes treatment inside on Monday.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

Angela Merkel is angry.

Her already souring relationship with President Vladimir Putin took another hit after doctors in Germany treating Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny — who collapsed on a domestic flight in Russia and remains in a coma – say he was most likely poisoned.