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Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny says he is still unable to use his phone properly or pour himself a glass of water, but is on a "clear road" towards recovering from his near-fatal poisoning, CNN reported.

Navalny posted a picture of himself walking down a staircase on Saturday, writing that he is regaining his physical and mental capacity.

"Quite recently, I did not recognize people and did not understand how to talk," Navalny wrote. "Every morning the doctor came to me and said: Alexey, I brought a board, let's figure out which word we can write on it. This drove me to despair because although I understood in general what the doctor wanted, I did not understand where to get the words from.

"Now I'm a guy whose legs are shaking when he walks up the stairs, but this guy thinks: 'Oh, this is a staircase! People get up on these. Perhaps we should look for an elevator.' And before, I would have just stood there and stared at it blankly," the post added.